Little Happier: An Unexpected Insight About Love from the Beatles

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The lives of Paul McCartney and Trevor Noah suggest the same truth: with our love, we can shape someone else’s experience of the world. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. 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—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! 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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0:00.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:03.6	Recently, I watched the excellent documentary Get Back and I found it so fascinating that
0:09.9	it has launched me down a path of trying to learn more and more about the Beatles.
0:15.1	I still don't know much, but I've been watching a few more documentaries and reading a few
0:19.5	books.
0:20.5	I have so much more to learn, it's exciting.
0:23.7	As I was poking around, for some reason, in an idle moment, I got curious about Paul
0:29.4	McCartney's personal life.
0:31.6	I can't even remember why it was curious, but I looked online to learn more about his
0:35.5	marriages.
0:37.3	Paul McCartney was married to his first wife, Linda, for 29 years.
0:41.9	Very sadly, she died of cancer and later he married a woman named Heather Mills.
0:47.5	In an article about that relationship, I read something that I keep thinking about.
0:53.0	Now, according to the article, at some point McCartney introduced Heather Mills to his friends,
0:58.4	including his old friend, artist, Astrid Kircher, whom he'd known since the early 1960s.
1:04.8	In the article, Astrid Kircher is quoted saying of Paul McCartney, he was so protected
1:10.5	by Linda and surrounded with her love and care that he was like an unborn baby toward
1:15.9	women.
1:16.9	Now, I have no background on that situation.
1:20.9	I don't have any opinion about it.
1:23.9	This comment struck me only for reasons that had nothing to do with Paul McCartney or
1:28.9	his relationships.
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