Gretchen Rubin on appreciating all five senses

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Do you notice the impact of your senses on your life, or does it feel like you function on autopilot a lot? Author Gretchen Rubin has a new book out right now - Life In Five Senses - that helps us use our senses to keep us present and intentional. In this conversation with Jessi, Gretchen shares her experiences exploring and researching the senses as she worked on writing this book, and gives us a peek into how Gretchen became the author she is today. Follow Gretchen Rubin on LinkedIn, and check out her new book, Life in Five Senses. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn. Listen to my new podcast, The Path.
0:05.0	Discover how today's greatest leader shaped their unique career paths and the lessons they learned along the way.
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0:15.0	LinkedIn News
0:21.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:25.0	It's our show about the changing nature of work.
0:27.0	Now that work is changing us.
0:30.0	A couple weeks ago, I was on a trip.
0:33.0	I had some distance from the kids, a little more time than usual.
0:37.0	I settled into this great book about happiness and I found myself just savoring this book.
0:42.0	Like I can remember what the pages sound like as I flipped them.
0:46.0	The book called for us to use our five senses as a tool for taking a step back and really internalizing each moment.
0:55.0	Almost in a meditative way.
0:57.0	I thought about how nearly every day, for example, I walk my son to school.
1:02.0	He's four.
1:04.0	I noticed so little on this walk.
1:06.0	Not much about my surroundings.
1:08.0	Not much about him.
1:10.0	It's like I'm on autopilot.
1:12.0	My attention's elsewhere.
1:14.0	I don't know where.
1:15.0	Well, this book, it actually left me thinking about how I could use tools to be present with him.
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