Hi, happier listeners. This is your producer, Kristen.

Before we start today's show, we just want to apologize for the slightly tinny sound of Gretchen's audio,

which was caused by a technical issue during the recording of last weeks and this week's episodes.

Hopefully, you won't even notice.

Thank you for your patience, and now on to the show.

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.

This week we'll talk about why it made booster happiness to read three magazines you don't usually read,

and we'll talk about the question of whether you're a headshot or a fox.

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

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

That's me, Elizabeth Fraff, and headshot, a TV writer and producer, living in LA, and Gretchen,

I want to remind everybody that we have a live show coming up.

Absolutely. For everybody in the Seattle area, please come to our live show Thursday, October 13, 7.30 pm,

at Town Hall, again in Seattle, and you can find out more information and buy tickets at slate.com slash live,

and we hope to see lots of you there. It's going to be a ton of fun.

Yes. Before we get started, we had some updates from listeners related to episode 75,

where we talked about why it's a happiness booster to develop a minor expertise.

There are great responses to that.

Yeah, and this is one great story from Diane.

She says, in 2002, I moved to the Upper East Side for graduate school.

I'd spent the previous five years living in several spots downtown slash Brooklyn,

but this apartment was my first time having daily access to Central Park.

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