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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: A Famous Art Historian Experiences a Spiritual Epiphany with a Surprising Result

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Art historian Kenneth Clark describes his experience of an intense spiritual awakening—a “flood of grace”—and what resulted from it. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Introducing Laseldisei by Issemyake, a tribute to today's masculinity that gives men the desire to live intensely,

0:11.0

a fragrance inspired by salt, an essential element of nature, an incisive freshness

0:18.4

with a bold blend of woody and marine notes.

0:21.8

Awaken your senses, Lusseldise, the new fragrance for men. Issemyaki.

0:30.0

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

0:34.0

One of my favorite things about myself is that I'm very prone to epiphanies.

0:40.0

In a moment, and I'll always remember that moment, when and where it happened, I'll be struck so hard by an idea or a realization that my whole life changes.

0:51.0

I was talking to my husband Jamie at the corner of 69th Street and

0:55.0

third avenue when I thought I could write a biography of Winston Churchill that

0:59.4

showed that there are many ways to view him. Very different, but all accurate. I was in a bus near the

1:06.6

intersection of 79th Street and Park Avenue when I thought I should do a

1:10.7

happiness project.

1:16.0

I was sitting at my desk right where I'm sitting now, reviewing my notes on habits

1:18.0

and thinking back on a conversation with a friend.

1:21.0

She'd said,

1:22.0

when I was in high school, I was on the track team and I

1:24.8

never missed track practice. Why can't I go running now? Suddenly, it was as if the

1:31.4

word expectation exploded out of the notepad in front of me and I realized

1:36.4

that expectation was the key idea I'd been searching for.

1:40.8

That epiphany was the key to my personality framework, the four tendencies.

1:47.1

Because I love experiencing epiphanies myself.

1:49.7

I love reading about other people's epiphanies.

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