Little Happier - Can We Rise to the Occasion? Is This Our Moment to Sing the Aria?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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When something challenging happens, we must ask ourselves, “Can I rise to the occasion? Will I sing the aria?” 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	Years ago, I read the book The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Height,
0:09.0	in it he told a story that I've never forgotten.
0:13.0	In the book, he writes about how sometimes we can grow after a traumatic experience.
0:18.8	In his discussion of post-traumatic growth,
0:21.5	Jonathan Height tells the story of his old friend Greg,
0:25.0	who went through a terrible time.
0:27.4	Greg's wife disappeared with their two children,
0:30.6	and when Greg learned where she'd gone,
0:32.7	it turned out that she'd left him for another man.
0:35.6	Greg was in terrible distress from what had happened.
0:39.3	In time, the situation became resolved.
0:42.4	A few months later, Jonathan Height reports,
0:45.1	Greg was still reeling,
0:46.8	but he also felt that he'd gained valuable lessons from what had happened.
0:51.6	He learned how many people cared about him and wanted to help him.
0:55.4	He felt that he responded to other people with more love, sympathy, and forgiveness.
1:00.1	He experienced more joy with his children than he had before the crisis.
1:04.9	From the crisis, his values and his perspectives
1:08.2	on what mattered most in his life had changed.
1:12.0	Then Jonathan Height continues the story.
1:15.8	Then Greg said something so powerful that I choked up,
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