It's ok to be wrong, by Gretchen Rubin

Meditative Story

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Mental Health, Society & Culture, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Stories, Health & Fitness, Storytelling, Society And Culture

4.6 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Gretchen Rubin is an expert on happiness, and she's spent her career helping people build the habits to achieve it. But she assumed that if something works for her, it should work for just about anyone. A series of chance encounters, and a healthy helping of curiosity, makes Gretchen realize that maybe there isn't one path to happiness after all. That there's no right or wrong way to build a meaningful life, just the way that works for you.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Rohan.
0:02.0	With some exciting news to share, Meditative Story is now on YouTube, so you can now experience
0:08.9	full length stories with gorgeous visual backgrounds, short clips from our storytellers and even some
0:15.0	meditation videos from me, which I love to record out in nature.
0:20.1	We hope you'll come along for this new venture.
0:22.6	You can follow the channel at meditativestory.com, fullslashy tube.
0:27.8	That's meditativestory.com, fullslashy tube.
0:46.6	Often, when I ask about habits, people tell me things like,
0:52.7	I make so many promises to myself that I never keep.
0:58.2	Or, I keep telling myself that I'm going to get back into meditation,
1:03.5	and then I just never do.
1:06.7	Weary resignation.
1:10.6	Disappointed aspirations.
1:14.2	But her reaction is completely different.
1:17.8	It's not that she wants habits and can't maintain them.
1:24.7	She rejects the entire aim of having habits in the first place.
1:30.1	That someone might feel this way has simply never occurred to me.
1:34.9	She looks at me as if she wishes she could pull out a string of garlic toward me off.
1:39.8	So of course I want to push her to see how far this idea goes for her.
1:48.0	In a string of New York Times bestsellers, Gretchen Rubin writes about happiness habits in human nature.
1:58.0	She also hosts the happier podcasts which you might want to add to your list if you're not already a listener.
2:03.4	Her most recent book, Outta Order in a Calm, traces the connections between happiness and personal habits.
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