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🗓️ 21 April 2025
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When we’re trying to make a point, it’s often more effective to tell a story than to deliver a lecture. Example: an episode from the popular TV show “Better Call Saul” memorably illustrates the important truth that we’re probably better off assigning a complex problem to the person who acknowledges the difficulties rather than to the person who offers suspiciously easy answers.
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1:23.6 | I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is A Little Happ happier. I love a secret of adulthood, and I write them |
1:29.8 | myself. My new book, Secrets of Adulthood, includes 200 of these secrets, such as, |
1:35.6 | we know what matters to people when they repeat themselves. If we're not likely to win a |
1:41.4 | starring role, we can stage our own performance. |
1:45.6 | Putting materials into our hands often puts ideas into our heads. |
1:50.8 | Or, telling people what to do is a very different skill from doing it ourselves. |
1:55.7 | Mediocre writers can be great editors, and unprincipled gurus can lead others to enlightenment. |
2:02.9 | I collect other people's secrets of adulthood, and I also collect teaching stories. |
2:08.5 | I love Esop's fables, Zen stories, and parables. |
2:13.1 | I love the fact that teaching stories can come from us from all kinds of sources, |
2:17.3 | from real life, of sources, from real |
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