Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you ideas about building happiness into

your daily life. This week we'll talk about why you should pick your yearbook quote and

how the strategy of pairing can help you stick to your good habits.

I'm Gretchen Reuben, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature. I'm

in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and I'm dying to hear what she's

going to pick as her yearbook quote. That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer,

living in LA and Gretchen. I'm also excited to hear your yearbook quote.

It's going to be all going to be very interesting today.

Well so here's an update. I've been working on my four tendencies book because you know I'm obsessed

with the four tendencies. We've talked about it a lot on the podcast which is the question of whether

you're an upholder, a questioner, an obliger or a rubble. So I'm finishing that up and

but one thing that's come up over and over again is people keep saying can you develop a quiz

for children? I have a quiz for adults. If you want to take the quiz you can email me and I'll

send you the link or I'll post the link at HappierCast.com slash 74 and I've loved doing that quiz.

Almost 500,000 people have taken that quiz but that quiz is aimed at adults and a lot of people

want one for children and I'm kind of stuck about how to think about good questions for children that

would get to the tendencies. So if you have any thoughts about a good question for how to get

at children's tendencies you will get a gigantic gold star for me if you email me and help me think

of how to frame the question for children. Yeah that's a challenge. Call for help. Call for help.

Well it gets it depends on the age of the child but it should it be questions for parents in terms

of observations as opposed to oh questions for the children. Oh that's interesting. Maybe that's

the way to think about it. Ask yourself this about your child not what is the question because

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