Little Happier: One Thing That Surprised Me in My Study of the Five Senses

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Each of us inhabits our own individual, idiosyncratic sensory worlds. One example: I love the fragrance of paperwhite narcissus flowers; my daughter Eleanor disliked the smell intensely. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nothing's more British than a copper and a biscuit.
0:04.6	Taking a 15 minute break to reset, recharge and feel better.
0:09.6	But the perfect break needs the perfect biscuit.
0:13.7	And let's be honest, as the original and the best
0:17.5	only a MacVitties one will do.
0:20.6	Time for a biscuit, Britain.
0:23.4	MacVitties' true originals,
0:25.8	buy and store for a chance to win a truly original biscuit break.
0:30.8	I'm Grygian Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:34.2	When I tell people about my book Life in Five Senses,
0:37.2	which is about how we can tune into our five senses
0:39.7	for more energy, calm, creativity,
0:41.8	luck and love, there's one question that I often hear.
0:46.0	What surprised you most people ask?
0:48.0	You did all that research, you did all those self experiments,
0:50.4	you win on those adventures.
0:52.1	What was most surprising?
0:54.6	Many things surprised me,
0:56.3	but one of the things that surprised me most
0:58.4	was the degree to which we all inhabit
1:01.0	our own individual idiosyncratic sensory worlds.
1:05.9	Partly it's due to genetic differences,
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