Little Happier: Drifting Through Life: When Not Deciding Becomes a Decision
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Drift—the powerful force of making decisions by not deciding—can shape our lives without our conscious participation.
Resources & links related to this episode:
- Secrets of Adulthood
- If you’re wondering if you’re drifting, I created a checklist
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| 1:14.3 | I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier. |
| 1:17.9 | As I may have mentioned, we have a new book, Secrets of Adulthood, which is a collection of one |
| 1:24.0 | sentence lessons I've learned with time and experience about life. |
| 1:29.1 | One of my secrets of adulthood is decisions will be made by choice or by chance, |
| 1:35.8 | because not deciding is a decision. Not choosing is a choice. |
| 1:42.1 | This secret of adulthood is related to the subject of drift, a subject that I've |
| 1:46.6 | written about many times. Drift is the decision we make by not deciding, or by making a decision |
| 1:53.5 | that unleashes consequences for which we don't take responsibility. Maybe we're not sure what to do, |
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