Ep. 86: Be the Bearer of Some Good News

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Why it's good to be the bearer of good news (at least sometimes), how other people affect our habits for better and for worse, why you should read a book related to a vacation, and a look at Obliger-rebellion. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com; happiercast.com/86; 774-277-9336. Panoply Survey We want you to tell us about the podcasts you enjoy, and how often you listen to them. So we created a survey that takes just a couple of minutes to complete. If you fill it out, you'll help Panoply to make great podcasts about the things you love. And things you didn’t even know you loved. To fill out the survey, just go to www.megaphone.fm/survey To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for how to build
0:06.3	happier habits into your daily life.
0:08.8	This week we'll talk about why you should try to be the bearer of good news and we'll
0:13.4	discuss the striking pattern of a bliger rebellion.
0:18.8	I'm Gretchen Ruben, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits and human nature.
0:29.1	I'm a New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and I'm always happy to hear
0:33.9	from Elizabeth whether she has good news or bad news but I do prefer the good news.
0:39.8	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA in Gretchen.
0:44.3	Today I have good news.
0:47.3	In case anyone hasn't heard we are going to be live in Seattle on October 13th at Town Hall.
0:54.4	So really come see us please.
0:57.0	We want you there.
0:59.0	And there's info and ticket sales are at slate.com slash live.
1:05.4	So that's Seattle October 13th.
1:07.9	Yeah and we're so excited we've started to hear from people who are coming.
1:11.9	It's fantastic and once again if you are coming we would love to feature some manifestos
1:18.3	from listeners and so if you're going to be in Seattle and you have a manifesto and that
1:23.0	can be about work, life, marriage, career, exercise, whatever it is.
1:29.0	You would love to see your manifesto.
1:30.8	And if you want to see some examples of manifestos you can email us at podcastagretchenrubin.com
1:36.8	and I can send you my manifesto about podcasting, my manifesto about good habits.
1:43.7	I love writing manifestos because it's a very creative, interesting exercise and really
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