Little Happier: After Hundreds of Visits to the Met, I Still Needed Someone to Show Me

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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During a visit to the Metropolitan Museum, a former museum guard showed me something interesting that I’d never noticed before, even though it was right in front of my eyes. Before, I didn’t see it; now I look for it every time. Get in touch: [email protected] 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. 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

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1:06.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. As part of my work around the writing of my book,
1:11.6	Life in Five Senses, I decided to visit the Metropolitan Museum every day for a year. I love these daily visits to the Met so much that I still go to the museum every day.
1:16.6	Around the same time that my book hit the shelves, another book was published,
1:21.6	All the Beauty in the World, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, by Patrick Bringley.
1:28.2	For a decade, Patrick worked as a museum guard in the Met, and in this terrific memoir,
1:33.2	he writes about his experience.
1:35.5	Because we both had new books that discussed spending time in the Met, somehow, and I don't
1:41.0	remember exactly how, Patrick and I met,. We had a lovely time wandering through the
1:46.2	museum together, talking about our observations and favorite objects. The highlight for me was when
1:52.8	Patrick pointed out something he called the guard marks. A guard mark is the mark made on a wall
1:59.9	where museum guards have leaned up against it, and over
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