Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for how to build

happier habits into your daily life.

This week we'll talk about why you should ask for a favor and the distinction between cooperation

and competition.

I'm Gretchen Ruben, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, and he's a great

man nature.

I'm a New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and I am never shy about asking

her for favors.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen I have to say

I'm still basking in the afterglow of our live podcast event.

I know it was so much fun.

It really was and the audience was just so kind they laughed at it you know in all the

right places which I really appreciate.

You were like being a stand up comic.

You were like flinging out the jokes but yes it's good when they're all laughing along

it makes you feel like you're killing it.

So that was great we have to do that again.

Yeah it was so fun to be doing it with people who are actually listening it really transformed

the experience.

Yeah it was really a night I will always remember.

But I have to say when I listen back to it a lot of it I didn't remember until I listened

to it again it was so intense that it almost didn't register in my mind.

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