Happier - Ep. 382: Responsibility-Shifting Questions, Being a Better Manager, and Why You Might Rent a Salad Bowl

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We discuss why we’re trying to stop asking responsibility-shifting questions (which we both do, often), talk about an easy way to rent little-used items, and talk to legendary Silicon Valley manager Russ Laraway about how to be a better manager. 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/382 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 lessons
0:07.7	from popular culture, the wisdom of the ages and our own experiences about how to be happier.
0:14.0	This week we'll talk about why we're trying to stop asking responsibility shifting questions
0:21.2	and we'll talk to legendary Silicon Valley manager Russ Leroy about his new book, When
0:27.2	They Win, You Win. Being a great manager is simpler than you think.
0:43.9	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose study is happy, this good habits, human nature, and the
0:48.0	five senses. I'm a New York City in my little home office once again and joining me today from
0:53.6	Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Kraft who answers all my questions. That's me Elizabeth Kraft
1:01.1	a TV writer and producer living in LA and yes Gretchen I have a new example of asking responsibility
1:08.1	shifting questions so I'll share that with you when we talk. Okay stay tuned for that little
1:13.2	foreshadowing. Yes so before we lunch in an episode 380 a listener suggested that Elizabeth
1:21.0	you and I write a book on the model of the office BFFs because in that book the writer is
1:26.9	Jennifer and Angelic Kinsey took turns in their own voices telling a story going from one to
1:33.5	the other voice and someone suggested we should read a book like that and we're like we would
1:37.6	love to read a book like that but what should that book be about and we heard from some listeners?
1:41.8	Yes this idea comes from another Gretchen she says I have an idea for your sister book you need
1:47.5	to write a writing book I've always loved that your approach is that habit solutions are not one
1:53.0	size fits all and as the listener to both happier and Hollywood and happier I know that your
1:58.4	approaches to writing are also very different and only in part because of the difference in audience
2:03.3	format etc. I love a good writer on writing book but you can get in your head about there being a
2:09.8	right way to approach it. I'd love to see that back and forth format about how you each write
2:15.2	examining common myths about writing and how they either work or don't work for you and your
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