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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: “Don’t Be So Modest. You’re Not That Good.”

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Learning the words “humblebrag” and “humblevain” helped me see the world in a new way. 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

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0:04.4

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0:29.9

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

0:33.0

I love new words and phrases, such as doom scrolling and stacation.

0:38.1

And one of my favorite neologisms is the humble brag.

0:42.4

A humble brag is quote, an apparently modest or self-deprecating statement

0:47.6

whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud.

0:52.0

So, if you want a brag, but you want to do it in a way that makes you seem modest,

0:56.9

or if you gripe about something that's actually enviable, that's humble bragging.

1:02.2

For instance, saying something like, oh, this red carpet scene is so boring,

1:07.3

or I'm such a slob that I spent only an hour at the gym today.

1:11.2

Along the same lines, I've coined the term the humble vein,

1:16.1

but at least I think I've coined it.

1:18.3

When you make a point of your admirable humility, or when you're self-effacing in a way

1:23.3

that assumes that your achievement or status is greater than it is.

1:27.9

For instance, someone once told me, despite all my success in my career,

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