Life in Five Senses || Gretchen Rubin
The Psychology Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome Gretchen Rubin, one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She’s a highly acclaimed writer, having sold millions of copies of her New York Times bestselling books. Her podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, has more than 220 million downloads. As the founder of The Happiness Project, Gretchen has helped create an ecosystem of imaginative products and tools to help people become happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. Her latest book is called Life in Five Senses.
In this episode I talk to Gretchen Rubin about connecting to the world through our five senses. Our fast-paced, modern world keeps us constantly moving, making us feel disconnected from other people and our surroundings. Gretchen shares unconventional ways we can re-experience the world through seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching. She believes that tuning into life’s simple pleasures allows us to live each day with more appreciation and vitality. We also touch on the topics of mindfulness, creativity, learning, and individual differences.
Website: gretchenrubin.com
Twitter: @gretchenrubin
Topics
01:57 The Five-Senses Quiz
08:25 The more we know, the more we notice
11:09 Life in Five Senses
14:34 We all have unique sensory worlds
19:21 Gretchen’s daily visits to the MET
24:40 The longing for immersive experiences
27:50 COVID has taught us to value our senses
32:10 The magic of ketchup
36:50 Connecting through sensory experiences
40:04 What is your ideal sensory surrounding?
50:21 The muse machine
55:19 Different ways of being and sensing
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| 0:00.0 | There's something about with the census. |
| 0:01.9 | It's like, you can't book market, you can't save it, |
| 0:04.7 | you can't binge it. |
| 0:05.9 | You have to do it right here right now. |
| 0:07.7 | And then it's gone. |
| 0:08.8 | And you could do it again, but that'll be different. |
| 0:10.5 | And like, it's all just like, it's right here. |
| 0:12.6 | It's right now. |
| 0:13.5 | This is how you have to experience it. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello, and welcome to the Psychology Podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | Today we welcome Gretchen Ruben to the show. |
| 0:25.5 | Gretchen is one of today's most influential |
| 0:27.5 | and thought-provoking observers of happiness |
| 0:29.6 | and human nature. |
| 0:30.7 | She's a highly acclaimed writer, |
| 0:32.1 | having sold millions of copies of her |
| 0:33.8 | New York Times bestselling books. |
| 0:35.6 | Her podcast, Happier with Gretchen Ruben, |
| 0:37.9 | has more than 220 million downloads. |
| 0:40.8 | As the founder of the Happiness Project, |
| 0:43.0 | Gretchen has helped create an ecosystem |
| 0:44.8 | of the imaginative products and tools |
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