Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be happier and more productive and more creative and healthier.

This week we will talk about our one-word themes. We will review our choices for 2024 and reveal our one-word theme choices for 2025.

Thank you. and reveal our one-word theme choices for 2025. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, human nature.

I'm in my little home office in New York City, and joining me today from L.A. is my sister

Elizabeth Kraft.

And Elizabeth, I think your one-word theme for this year is one of your best ever.

That's me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A.

And Gretch, I love that tease.

Yeah.

I can't wait to reveal it.

Yes, the suspense is building.

But first, we have a lot of updates today.

We got many interesting comments from listeners.

Yeah, this comes from Jamie on the subject of learning from someone else's mistake.

Jamie says, a few years ago, I wanted to make some bone broth with

scraps, bones from a chicken we had recently eaten. I put it all together in the crock pot and was so

excited for the result. Well, I put my strainer in my sink to strain out all the elements and in a

moment of not thinking clearly proceeded to pour my beautiful bone broth entirely

down the sink. As I realized what I was doing, it was too late. Oh, I can so imagine myself

doing exactly. You're just used to like, you hold it out, you strain off the thing. So anyway, that is a good example of learning from someone else's mistakes.

Fred said, you'd asked whether you can make yourself interested in something.

I'm an avid DIYer, although growing up, I had no interest or aptitude for it.

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