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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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We discuss why embracing regret can help us make our lives happier, by helping point the way to a life that better reflects our values. We also share a listener's hack for using customized stickers to label children's belongings. Plus, we explore whether Upholders can experience Upholder-rebellion.
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0:50.4 | Hello and welcome to Happy are a podcast where we talk about the cutting edge science, wisdom of the ages, lessons from pop culture, our own experiences about how to be happier. |
1:01.0 | This week we'll talk about why we might embrace regret and we share a hat from a listener that can make daily life much easier. |
1:09.9 | I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, |
1:12.2 | good habits, secrets of adulthood, human nature. I'm in my little home office in New York City. |
1:18.3 | I'm back from the road. And joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister, Elizabeth Craft. |
1:23.2 | And Elizabeth, last night, I was just thinking again of how much fun I had, clearing your closet |
1:27.3 | with you. |
1:28.2 | That's me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A. And Gretchen, I have to tell you, |
1:33.5 | listeners want a picture of the after of my closet, but it's not quite there yet. We got all the stuff out, |
1:40.3 | but we didn't have time to get to the neatening part, so I have to do that. Yeah, the staging of it. |
1:46.2 | Yes. Yes, we were very focused on the actual meat and potatoes and we didn't get around until |
1:50.5 | the presentation part. Exactly. So only we'd had another day. But first, we have a few updates. |
1:55.8 | Yes, so we are heading into the back to school zone, and we are looking for hacks, resources, |
2:04.1 | lessons learn the hard way for any age child or for yourself. |
2:08.4 | Because parents are going back to school too. |
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