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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: At a Recent Dinner for Supreme Court Clerks, Even Longtime Lawyers Wanted This Table Gift.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

At a recent event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the statute creating the Supreme Court clerkships, I got my “America feeling” when I saw that everyone in the room was eagerly taking home this keepsake from the dinner. Get tickets for our last live podcast events of 2019 in Atlanta, Charlotte and Brooklyn here: https://gretchenrubin.com/events 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, and Happier in Hollywood. 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

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0:03.6

It's so easy to get caught up in whatever everyone else needs from you and never take a moment to think about what you need from yourself.

0:12.0

I know when I'm show running, the last thing I'm thinking about usually is me.

0:15.8

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0:19.4

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0:25.2

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0:33.6

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0:49.2

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0:54.7

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1:00.7

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

1:04.1

I recently traveled to Washington, DC to attend an event called Clerks at 100.

1:09.4

It was organized by the National Constitution Center to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the federal statute that created the Supreme Court clerkships.

1:19.4

Clerking for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was one of the highlights of my life.

1:23.5

And perhaps because I'm not a practicing lawyer anymore, I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to reconnect with that lawyerly part of my past.

1:32.9

Plus, I do love reunions.

1:34.7

It was great to see a bunch of old friends and former colleagues and to meet some new people as well.

1:40.3

And here's one thing that really struck me about the event.

1:45.5

There was a huge dinner at the National Portrait Gallery with table after table of former clerks and also some justices.

1:52.9

Most of these people, as you would expect, still practice law in some way.

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