Going Deep with Gretchen Rubin on Happiness

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The word is EVERYWHERE. Happiness. I don’t even always believe that it’s a worthy goal honestly, but that might be a matter of semantics. How you define happiness defines how you approach it. This is a careful conversation with Gretchen Rubin that’s based on what research and experience tell us makes a life that feels pretty satisfying most of the time. Gretchen wrote The Happiness Project 15 years back and has been playing with the tenets and practices ever since on her podcast Happier.

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0:00.0	I really thought I'll come up with the most scientifically proven way to be happier.
0:13.0	And what I realize is you can't do that.
0:15.0	There is no one-size-fits-all solution to happiness because we're all so different.
0:19.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:20.0	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about something that is talked
0:24.4	about almost constantly the pursuit of happiness. My thought partner is
0:30.5	author and podcaster Gretchen Rubin who 15 years ago wrote a book you
0:35.1	may have read it's called The Happiness Project it detailed her year-long
0:38.9	experiment to discover ways to create and sustain true happiness.
0:44.8	In today's show, Gretchen will share thoughts and phrases from her work over the years,
0:49.6	and I'll share some ideas from my book, Tell Me More. So join me for a conversation with the
0:54.9	highly intentional Gretchen Rubin. We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan
0:59.9	Wenders. wonders. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wunders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. My guest today is author Gretchen Rubin. She's been on the show before, but we're having her back because she's currently celebrating the 15th anniversary of her book, The Happiness Project, which details a year in her life in which she, very consciously, sought
1:38.1	out happiness and found some ideas for all of us.
1:41.6	Here's my conversation with Gretchen Rubin.
1:43.7	So here we are Gretchen and Kelly sharing some insights about relationships in honor of the 15th anniversary of the happiness project.
1:59.6	Congratulations.
2:00.6	Thank you so much.
2:02.3	Yeah, it's hard to believe.
2:04.0	So of all the things that you brought up in that book,
2:08.0	I think that probably the one I'm most interested in that most overlaps with everything I've been thinking about is relationships.
2:15.4	So you and I both know that meaningful connection to others is the number one driver of human happiness across time, across culture.
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