Ep. 527: What a Favorite Book Reveals, Photo Selection Tips & Family Secrets Explored

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We discuss how paying attention to the books, movies, or TV shows someone loves can provide profound insights into their character and inner life. Our happiness hack shares surprising research that shows we're actually terrible at choosing our own most flattering photos; strangers select better images of us than we do ourselves. Plus we talk to Rich Benjamin about his compelling new memoir, Talk to Me, in which he explores the history and secrets that have haunted his family. Resources & Links Related to this episode: Pre-order your copy of Secrets of Adulthood Join me on book tour starting April 1, 2025 Talk to Me by Richard Benjamin (Amazon, Bookshop) Outer Order, Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin Elizabeth is reading: War and Peace and nothing else these days! (Amazon, Bookshop) Gretchen is reading: Crush by Ada Calhoun (Amazon, Bookshop) Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com 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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1:16.9	Lemonada.
1:37.9	Hello. Hello and welcome to Happy Europe podcast where we talk about ideas and strategies for bringing more happiness into our everyday lives.
1:46.4	This week we'll talk about an effective way to connect more deeply with someone and we'll talk about the elusive power of family secrets.
1:51.4	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, secrets of adulthood.
1:57.1	I'm in my little home office in New York City and joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Craft. And Elizabeth, I'm always looking for ways to connect more deeply with you.
2:01.8	That's me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A. And, well, Gretch, this podcast
2:07.5	definitely connects us. It does. Yes. Sisters who podcast together connect together.
2:14.7	That's right. There's an aphorism in there somewhere. Before we launch in, I am counting down the days to the publication of my next book, Secrets
2:22.3	of Adulthood.
2:23.2	It hits the shelves on April 1st.
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