Little Happier: Now You’ll Be Working All the Time

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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When a friend quit her job to work as an artist, someone told her, “Now you’ll be working all the time.” Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. 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	Many of us are already planning our New Year's resolutions to work out more in 2023.
0:04.4	But let's face it, they rarely stick.
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0:30.7	I'm Griton Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:34.0	Have you ever been haunted by a conversation you had years before?
0:38.8	I've never forgotten a story a friend told me, and I thought of the story recently.
0:43.8	I was at the apartment of some friends for a dinner party.
0:46.6	On a table stood a beautiful, tight bouquet of pink penies under a golden light.
0:52.0	I stood transfixed in front of these flowers for a very long time
0:56.1	until it occurred to me that my behavior might seem a bit odd to the other people at the party.
1:01.1	I just couldn't tear my eyes away.
1:04.1	And I think the reason for the intensity of my looking came from the fact that I'm working on a book about the five senses.
1:10.9	Because I've been thinking so much about the five senses, I'm much more aware of what I'm experiencing.
1:16.9	And I should know, yes, we do have more than five senses, so I can call these the five kindergarten senses,
1:24.4	or maybe the five Aristotelian senses.
1:27.2	But these are the senses that I am studying.
1:29.2	And my gaze at these flowers reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend a long time ago.
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