Little Happier: Can You Call Spirits from the Vasty Deep? Sure, No Problem.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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A line from Shakespeare’s Henry IV summarizes a point that’s worth remembering: it’s not hard to put our words out into the world, it’s another thing to get a response. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:03.9	I love to read and over the years, many passages and quotations have lodged in my head.
0:09.7	Often I'll encounter a situation and I'll refer to it in my own mind by a shorthand reference
0:15.0	to something I've read.
0:17.2	Many situations remind me of my favorite TV show, The Office, for instance, and I'm often
0:22.3	reminded of many other works of art.
0:25.2	For example, I sometimes encounter a situation which I think of as a Vasty Deep situation.
0:32.5	Maybe you've experienced this kind of situation.
0:35.6	A Vasty Deep situation is when people make bold claims about the popularity of their products
0:41.3	or arguments about how persuasive they are.
0:44.4	A great example is when someone says to me, on my podcast, I plan to interview leaders
0:49.2	like Bill Gates, Tim Cook, and Oprah.
0:52.8	The key word there is plan.
0:55.0	Those people haven't agreed to do the interviews.
0:57.4	This person is just planning to ask them.
1:00.0	Or another example might be someone who says, I gave a talk that streamed out to 100,000
1:05.2	people.
1:06.2	Okay.
1:07.2	But how many people actually watched?
1:11.3	I gave this phenomenon this name from a short exchange in Shakespeare's play Henry
1:15.7	IV, which I've always gotten a kick out of.
1:18.8	So in the play, the character Glendower is bragging about himself and how extraordinary
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