Gretchen Rubin: Think about milestones, not finish lines
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Gretchen Rubin is the author of several blockbuster NYT bestsellers (Better Than Before, The Happiness Project and Happier At Home) which have sold millions of copies worldwide. If you notice a common theme of “happiness,” that’s because Gretchen is one of the world’s foremost “happiness experts.”
Today on the podcast,
* Gretchen talks about her concept of “drift." Drift is what happens when we take the path of least resistance, which avoids friction in the short term but often leads to unhappiness in the long term
* She also gets into several of her “personality frameworks” like obliger, upholder, rebel, questioner.
* We talk about accountability: “A lot of people who are frustrated with themselves just need accountability.” Boom.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, how's it going? I'm Chase Jarvis. I am your host, your guide, which makes |
| 0:09.1 | good sense because this is called the Chase Jarvis Live show. So if it was somebody else hosting it, |
| 0:13.0 | that would be weird. But I would like to welcome you to another episode. This is where I sit down |
| 0:17.4 | with the world's top creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders and unpack |
| 0:21.8 | actionable insights with the goal of helping you live your dreams in career, in hobby, and in |
| 0:26.6 | life. My guest today is Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen is the author of several New York Times |
| 0:36.4 | bestselling books, a couple of titles that you will remember |
| 0:39.4 | better than before, The Happiness Project, and more recently, happier at home. So obviously, |
| 0:47.2 | she's a happiness expert. She's sold millions of these copies of the book worldwide. And |
| 0:53.3 | someone being a happiness expert, |
| 0:55.9 | I'm sure that's a little bit strange, |
| 0:57.7 | but she is like, |
| 0:59.3 | she's like three part scientist, |
| 1:01.8 | one part artist, one part alchemist. |
| 1:05.7 | And she blends these things together to provide |
| 1:08.1 | really insightful, like these are like darts, like just things stick right on the nerve. |
| 1:14.6 | We had a great conversation before the podcast started where, I mean, it was just like |
| 1:19.6 | knowledge bomb, knowledge bomb, knowledge bomb. |
| 1:22.6 | And I then, you know, did my best to make sure that all those knowledge moms made it into this conversation, |
| 1:33.6 | which I'm happy to pat myself in the back. Nailed it. I love the idea of a happiness expert because it says something to me that's really important but very rarely said, which is that |
| 1:39.2 | happiness is largely a choice. So sure, I mean, we all have off days, all that kind of stuff, but there's a general disposition |
| 1:46.3 | that I have learned across all of the people, the hundreds that I've interviewed for this |
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