Little Happier - Even as a Member of the Beatles, It’s Possible to Feel Left Out and Bad at Your Job

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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A story told by Ringo Starr, the drummer for the Beatles, is a good reminder that we can’t know how other people are feeling—which is probably a lot like what we’re feeling. 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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0:30.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:33.2	Recently, I watched Get Back, the absolutely terrific 2021 documentary series about the Beatles.
0:40.3	The documentary shows footage of the 21 Days the band spent making their 1970 album Let It Be.
0:47.5	I was so interested in the documentary that I went to the library and checked out the book
0:52.1	The Beatles Anthology, which is an extraordinary history of the band that's full of interviews,
0:57.6	personal stories, photos, and memorabilia.
1:01.5	I was particularly struck by this story, told by drummer Ringo Star.
1:07.0	In it, Ringo Star mentions his bandmates, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison,
1:11.8	and also Yoko Ono. He writes,
1:15.4	While we were recording the white album, we ended up being more of a band again.
1:19.5	And that's what I always love. I love being in a band. Of course, I must have had
1:24.4	moments of turmoil because I left the group for a while that summer.
1:28.7	I left because I felt two things. I felt I wasn't playing great, and I also felt that the
1:34.5	other three were really happy, and I was an outsider. I went to see John, who'd been living in my
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