Ep. 499: Helpful Ways to Create Calm, Save Mental Energy & Get More Fun Out of Experiences

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We talk about why it’s a good idea to spare ourselves the work of having unnecessary opinions. We also share listeners’ many imaginative suggestions for ways that they help themselves stay calm, as well as a listener’s idea for getting more enjoyment out of familiar experiences. Plus we debate the question of whether we want to get maximum value out of an experience, or just enjoy what we want. Get in touch: [email protected] Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads @LizCraft on Instagram @LizCraft on Threads @GretchenRubin on ThreadsGet the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/499 Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest New York Times bestselling book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available wherever books are sold. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier a podcast where we talk about strategies, solutions, hacks, resources, suggestions, observations, all about how to live happier lives.
0:14.9	This week we'll talk about why we might want to spare ourselves the work of having unnecessary
0:20.9	opinions, and we will also share many suggestions from listeners about imaginative ways they keep themselves
0:28.3	calm. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, the empty nest phase, which I'm also calling the open door phase. Human nature, I'm coming to you from my little home office in New York City and joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth
0:55.8	and Elizabeth you've got several years ahead of you before you hit the open door stage.
1:01.5	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and
1:05.7	yes scratch I have four more years but today Jack's at home because it is so hot in
1:11.4	LA that his school closed.
1:14.5	Oh my goodness!
1:16.1	Yes, so that is a heat wave.
1:18.1	He's having a heat day instead of a snow day.
1:21.2	That never happened to us growing up or never happened to Eliza Eleanor. Okay, Los Angeles. But before we jump in we have a few updates.
1:29.3	Yes, Scratch, this comes from Kirstie, who is referring to the fact that you and I, the summer went on our trip to England where we walked all over, Northumberland and the Lake District, and one place we walked was called cat bells.
1:44.9	Yeah. And she said having recently climbed cat bells I thought this might interest you.
1:50.0	Last night I took part in a charity walk called the Lakeland Festival of Light.
1:55.6	We line the route up cat bells and as the sun sets there is a countdown, then we all turn on our torches, which is what they call flashlights.
2:04.4	Yeah. The effect seen from Kessick or the opposite bank of Derwin water is breathtaking.
2:10.1	Having walked cat bells previously the experience of being up there and then walking back down in the dark was surreal
2:16.8	A completely different five senses experience to doing it during the day. Well spoiler spoiler alert, we're going to bring this up again later in the episode with a hat from another
2:26.7	listener, but I have to say I went online to look at pictures, she sent a picture of it,
2:31.5	it is gorgeous and what an imaginative and exciting way to
2:36.4	raise money for a charity and also have a completely new way of experiencing an
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