Ep. 508: Learn from Someone’s Mistake, Stay Connected in a Hard Time & Why Wednesday Is Special

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We share listeners’ examples of important lessons they’ve learned from other people’s mistakes, and also what features make Wednesday a particularly enjoyable day of their week. Plus we discuss a practical suggestion for staying connected with loved ones after living through a natural disaster. Resources and links related to this episode: gretchenrubin.com/newsletter Sign-up to be a Super Fan Elizabeth is reading: The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy (Amazon, Bookshop) Gretchen is reading: Down the Garden Path by Beverly Nichols (Amazon, Bookshop) 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.2	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about strategies and solutions for making our lives happier.
1:09.6	This week we'll discuss examples from listeners about how they've learned from other people's mistakes,
1:15.2	and we'll share a suggestion about how happiness, good habits, and human nature.
1:38.0	I'm in my little home office in New York City, and joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Craft, my sister
1:44.8	the sage. That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A. And Gretchen, I try to be
1:51.8	wise, but I don't know how often I hit the mark, but thank you. Well, the election in the United
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2:03.2	happen, we sometimes ask ourselves if it's selfish with everything that's going on to think about
2:09.6	our own happiness. But research shows and everyday experience confirms that working on our
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