Happier - Ep. 373: Ask for Knock, Dealing with “Obliger Shame,” and a Great Creativity Booster

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We talk about why it’s useful to ask for a knock, how to deal with “Obliger Shame,” and share a listener’s terrific suggestion of an item that’s a great creativity booster (and also makes a great gift). Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/373 Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! 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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we discuss cutting edge science, the wisdom
0:06.7	of the ages, the lessons from pop culture, and our own experiences in how to be happier.
0:12.1	This week we'll talk about why you should ask for a knock, and we will tackle the subject
0:17.3	of a bliger shame.
0:19.6	I have so much to say.
0:21.4	I'm Richard Reuben, writer of his studies, Happiness Good Habits, and Human Nature.
0:38.2	I'm in my little home studio here in New York City and joining me today from LA is my sister
0:43.2	Elizabeth Kraft, who is one of my very favorite of bludgers.
0:48.0	It's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and Gretchen I have definitely
0:52.8	felt a bliger shame, so this will be a good episode for me.
0:56.8	We have so much to talk about.
0:59.4	But Gretchen first, we have had a great response to our super-grific, more happier episode.
1:07.0	For anyone who doesn't know, we had a quiet, slow, calm conversation that was meant to
1:14.2	be mildly interesting enough for people who listened to and just to low you into sleep.
1:23.2	It was about the different jobs on the Hollywood set, which is something that is mildly interesting.
1:30.6	Except for the people who found it extremely interesting, and we've heard from both kinds
1:33.6	of people.
1:34.6	The kind of people who fell asleep and the kind of people who are very interested.
1:37.4	It was a win-win, but if you need help going to sleep, listen to them.
1:40.2	I were saying we always try to be as interesting as possible.
1:43.4	It was a real challenge for us to try to keep it calm.
1:47.9	It was hard for us, Elizabeth.
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