How Can We Be Happier In 2024? with Gretchen Rubin

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It’s a new year and there’s a new topic that Jonathan’s curious about! We’re talking about happiness with the expert herself, Gretchen Rubin from the Happier podcast. She answers all of our burning questions about happiness in the new year: Is focusing on our own happiness selfish? How can we use our personality type to set more achievable goals in the new year? And how can we be more playful with our resolutions? Gretchen Rubin is the author of many bestselling books, such as The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and The Four Tendencies, which have sold millions of copies in more than thirty languages. Her most recent book is Life in Five Senses. She’s also host of the popular podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, and founder of award-winning Happier app, which helps people track their happiness-boosting habits. You can follow Gretchen on Instagram @gretchenrubin. You can find more information about Gretchen, here and you can listen to Happier wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producers are Chris McClure and Julia Melfi. Our associate producer is Allison Weiss. Our engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy New Year and welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous
0:11.1	with a brilliant expert to learn all about
0:13.8	something that makes me curious. Another year, another us, I can't believe that
0:19.1	it's our first episode of Getting Curious in 2024. I am that person who says happy new year through
0:24.4	like the duration of January. I can't help it but I have been thinking a lot
0:29.0	about New Year's resolutions and happiness more broadly.
0:33.0	2023 was a very stressful year for me personally and globally.
0:39.0	There has been so much collective suffering out there and so I'm curious as happiness
0:46.0	selfish how can we be more happy and that's why we're talking to no one better than
0:51.1	Gretchen Rubin is the author of the best-selling book The
0:56.0	Happiness Project and host of the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. She decided to become a writer after clerking for Sandra Day O'Connor.
1:04.6	She's been interviewed by Oprah. She's been an answer on Jeopardy.
1:08.8	She's walked arm in arm with the Dalai Lama and she is our guest for our first episode of the new year.
1:14.1	Gretchen how are you? I am so happy to be talking to you thank you for having me and
1:19.9	we're talking about one of my favorite things like getting started in January.
1:23.8	Such a great topic.
1:25.1	What is happiness?
1:26.9	Well, as you mentioned, I started my career in law and I have memories of spending an entire semester in law school
1:34.4	arguing about the definition of contract and something like happiness is an even more
1:39.3	difficult concept to define there is something like 15 academic definitions of happiness. But I think for people like you and me, the average person, it's more helpful to think about, you know, maybe it's joy or bliss or contentment or satisfaction or well-being but
1:55.2	whatever it is for us individually it's it's more helpful I think to think about
1:59.4	well whatever it is I think it means to be happier this week next month next year. What can I do to be happier however I see it
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