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

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K 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. 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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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
1:57.8	States has happened. Yes, it has. And in times like these, when big events
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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