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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: Easy Answers or Hard Truths: Whom Do You Trust?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

Gretchen, we always on this podcast talk about the importance of getting good sleep. And part of good sleep is a great pillow. There are side sleepers, back sleepers, even starfishes. I'm a side sleeper. And Gretchen, I got a pillow from coop sleep goods that is so perfect for me. I went from using like two pillows together that were not quite right

0:24.0

to using my one coop pillow, which is perfect. I love it. Visit coop sleepgoods.com slash happier to get

0:32.1

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0:41.8

picnics. At Whole Foods Market, you can save every day. Look for the yellow low-price signs that help

0:47.7

you save money without compromising the quality you expect from Whole Foods Market. Find them

0:53.1

with their responsibly farmed Atlantic salmon,

0:56.0

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1:02.2

Yellow really means savings at Whole Foods Market because their sales signs are also yellow.

1:07.8

So basically, wherever you see yellow, you know you're saving money. Save on the

1:12.5

best of spring with great everyday prices at Whole Foods Market.

1:19.5

Lemonada.

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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