Ep. 506: Find a Delight for Each Day, a Useful Travel Tip & Learning from Mistakes

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We explore ways to make each day of the week special by recognizing small pleasures. We discuss a practical hotel checkout tip to avoid forgetting items. Also, we examine the value of allowing yourself to go into “shock” when facing big assignments or feedback, and how this pause can lead to clearer thinking and better responses. Plus we ask, “What lesson have you learned the hard way?” Resources and links related to this episode: Four Tendencies Personality Quiz: Are you an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, or Rebel? Happiness Hacks Card Deck Elizabeth is reading: Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand (Amazon, Bookshop) Gretchen is reading: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Amazon, Bookshop) Get in touch: [email protected] Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts 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 how to be happier.
0:09.5	This week we'll talk about the value of finding a delight for each day of the week and we'll talk about the power of learning
0:16.4	from our mistakes. I'm Gretchen Rubin, writer who studies happiness, good habits, human nature.
0:35.0	Secrets of adulthood. I'm in New York City in my little home office and joining me today
0:40.8	from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth
0:44.2	you and I often swap stories of our mistakes. That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV
0:49.9	writer and producer living in LA and yeah luckily I make a lot of mistakes
0:53.9	correctly plenty to talk to you about. Yeah but before we jump in we have some
0:58.9	updates reminding everybody to get ready for our upcoming happier podcast book club
1:04.6	episode in which we will be talking about the novel Tell Me Everything by
1:08.6	Elizabeth Strout. We are super excited for this conversation with
1:11.8	Elizabeth Strout.
1:12.9	So send us your questions and observations
1:15.3	and we will incorporate them into that discussion.
1:18.1	Yes, and also we are asking you for your gift giving suggestions and also care package suggestions.
1:25.7	Everybody loves a great gift guide.
1:27.9	Everybody loves a great care package gift guide.
1:30.9	Keep them coming.
1:32.0	These are so fun and so useful. Yes. And then we got an
1:35.8	interesting question from Annie. Yes, she said I just finished listening to
1:39.8	episode 503 where you talked about the hack of setting a demand to aid in creativity.
1:45.9	Do you think that may work better for people who are more amenable to external expectations,
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