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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 51: Help! I Always Forget Names

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ep. 51: How to disguise the fact that you don't remember someone's name; why if-then planning helps us to keep good habits, the challenge of returning family phone calls--and adult coloring books! Want to get in touch? @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com; happiercast.com/51; 774-277-9336. 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about how to be happier.

0:07.2

This week we'll talk about how to deal with the fact that you can't remember an important

0:11.3

fact about someone, like maybe their name, and about how to avoid breaking your good habits.

0:30.5

I'm Gretchen Ruben, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.

0:34.8

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister of the sage Elizabeth Kraft.

0:39.5

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and Threatch.

0:44.0

Today I am in my new office.

0:46.6

Oh!

0:47.1

And it moved offices.

0:48.8

So where are you now?

0:50.5

I am still on the Disney lot.

0:53.4

But now I'm in the old animation building, which is super cool.

0:57.5

You know, where people actually drew all these iconic cartoons.

1:03.8

And the show I've been working on the family is wrapped up for the season.

1:08.2

It debuts soon.

1:09.6

On an early March, and of course I'll be plugging that.

1:13.3

But meanwhile, Sarah and I are in a new office.

1:15.8

We've got our treadmill desks all set up in our whiteboards, and we're just working on

1:21.5

developing shows right now.

1:24.0

And then we'll know more about what we're doing, you know, soon.

1:27.5

So what's the coolest thing about the Disney lot?

1:29.5

Is there some like statue or like secret thing or like Cinderella's glass slipper somewhere?

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