How to Be Happy at Home With Gretchen Rubin

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Gretchen Rubin joins us this week to talk about how she and her family are staying happy in their home during the pandemic—and how we can, too. Hear her talk about the rules, routines, and philosophies that are helping her maintain an inner calm during the current, chaotic state of the world. Gretchen is the New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, and The Four Tendencies, and also hosts the podcast Happier With Gretchen Rubin.

Following our chat with Gretchen, hear Lifehacker's Senior Health Editor, Beth Skwarecki, talk with epidemiologist René Najera about how to effectively limit the spread of COVID-19 and what we can expect as life slowly begins to return to "normal".

Have an idea for a future episode? Call us at 347-687-8109 and leave a voicemail, or write to us at upgrade@lifehacker.com. We want to hear from you!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:19.6	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of
0:21.9	LifeHacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHacker's deputy editor. And today we're talking with Gretchen Rubin.
0:28.1	She's the New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and host of the podcast,
0:32.9	Happier with Brechin Rubin. Gretchen is also a good friend of the upgrade. She's been on the show
0:37.3	twice before,
0:38.3	wants to help us hack our happiness,
0:40.0	and again, to help us determine our personality types.
0:43.0	And now she's back to chat with us
0:44.5	about what's going on with her
0:45.7	and how routines are helping her
0:48.0	maintain some sense of normalcy during this time.
0:51.3	I find energy and comfort in routine and execution and kind of sticking to my good
0:58.7	habits. And so I kind of go deeper into that as a way of comforting myself. Following our conversation with
1:05.1	Gretchen, our health editor Beth Skorecki chatted with Renee Neheda. He's an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins University
1:11.9	Bloomberg School of Public Health. Renée is currently serving on the pandemic response team at a
1:16.8	health department in the Washington, D.C. area. He gave us some of his extremely limited time
1:21.6	to answer lifehacker audience questions about COVID-19. So like any other infection, it is causing immunity.
1:28.3	You're seeing a lot of people who are still living in the hot spots and they're not catching it again once they get it and clear it.
1:35.3	The question is going to be how long does it last?
1:38.3	Hey, Alice.
1:40.3	Yes, Melissa.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lifehacker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lifehacker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.