Little Happier: A Story That Moved Me as a Child, and Moves Me Still as an Adult

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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As a child, I was deeply moved by this story of a child’s wish to do a good deed, and how she fulfilled that wish, despite making many mistakes. As an adult, I’m even more moved by 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. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts— Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together.
0:07.0	Take hands-free selfies which automatically sync to your Chromebook, ready to edit, and access
0:11.5	recent chrome tabs across both devices.
0:14.0	The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together.
0:18.0	Available on Sky Mobile.
0:20.0	Bluetooth and internet connection required.
0:22.0	You must be signed into the same Google
0:23.2	account on both your phone and Chromebook.
0:27.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:30.0	I love children's literature and one reason I love those children's literature and one reason I love those books is that I remember
0:36.2	them so well. As a child I read my favorite novels over and over and so I just recall them more easily than books that I love just as much
0:45.1	as an adult but haven't committed to memory.
0:48.6	I love Marilyn Robinson's novel Gilead, that I've read it only twice. I've read Irene Hunt's novel
0:55.6	Up a Road Slowly 10 times. So these novels are more present in my mind. In
1:02.1	particular I've read and re-read the novels of Edward Eager. I cannot
1:07.1	describe how much I love these books. It's interesting of all the writers I've read, I think, I hope, that Edward Eager has had a big influence on my own writing.
1:19.0	He has a clarity and humor and an ability to mix high in ordinary language and to make allusions to
1:24.8	literature in a way that has delighted me my whole life. I love all his novels and
1:31.1	one of my favorites is the 1954 half magic about a family of four
1:35.9	children who has a series of magical adventures after they find an ancient talisman that
1:41.0	grants wishes. The twist is that it grants half a wish, so if you wish to go to a desert
1:47.1	island, you end up in the desert. So the four children have to figure out how to make their
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