Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we discuss science, wisdom of the ages,

lessons from pop culture and our own experiences about how to be happier.

This week we'll talk about why we all need room of our own and how an incomplete upgrade

can be a big drag on happiness.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits in human nature.

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

And I call her the sage because she has so many wise thoughts about happiness.

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

wise thoughts on happiness, it's because I've learned from the best.

So do you.

The happiness expert in my life.

Okay, enough compliment to each other.

Gretchen, episode 64, we introduced a new segment about happiness hacks where we talked

about your stellar new toilet paper holder.

And since then we have been getting ideas from people about their happiness hacks.

Yes.

And it's so much fun.

I love the happiness hack because these are such practical ideas for like how to make

concrete changes.

And here's a great tip that comes from Jan.

Her happiness hack is she says, I'm an upholder and I generally run pretty high on the anxiety

scale in the course of everyday life.

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