Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that spoiler alert gives you strategies for making

your life happier.

This week we'll talk about harnessing the power of color and thinking about whether you're

an alchemist or a leopard.

I'm Gretchen Ruben, a writer who studies happiness, good habits in human nature.

I'm a New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft who is a leopard.

You'll have to keep listening to understand why.

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

I want to say thank you because we talked about surprise treats in episode 69 and you sent

me a surprise treat.

A book I've been wanting.

You got it.

I'm so happy and I hope you love it as much as I do so that it's a treat, though it's

also kind of related to work so that makes it slightly less treat like but it is a wonderful,

wonderful book so I hope you love it.

Yeah, it's something you think might make a good TV show.

So I'm excited to read it and I'll be doing that next weekend.

Gretchen, before we get to our try this at home, you know, in episode 71 we talked about

designing your summer and we've gotten a lot of fun responses to that.

Yes, absolutely.

It's been really fun to see all the things that people are doing to design their summers.

Here is one email we got.

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