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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: Patti Smith and the Haircut that Changed Her Life

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In a striking story from her memoir Just Kids, Patti Smith describes why she decided to cut her own hair and how that decision changed her life. 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

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0:30.3

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. This story doesn't make me happier, exactly,

0:38.0

but sometimes in a story or in life, some small, seemingly insignificant detail or anecdote

0:45.7

will suggest to me some deep truth about human nature. Encountering this kind of revelatory

0:51.8

detail always brings me a beautiful sense of elevation.

0:57.0

I came across an anecdote like this years ago when I was reading the brilliant award-winning

1:02.0

best-selling memoir Just Kids by the writer, musician and artist, Patty Smith. There's

1:09.0

one curious little story that particularly sticks out in my mind.

1:16.1

Patty Smith is in her early 20s. She gone with Robert Maplethorpe to see the rushes

1:20.5

of the movie trash and she reports that as she was leaving, she spoke to Fred Hughes,

1:25.7

who managed Andy Warhol's factory for Andy Warhol.

1:30.1

Hughes said to her in a condescending voice, oh, your hair is very Joan Baez. Are you a

1:36.9

folk singer?

1:39.5

Patty Smith writes that even though she admired Joan Baez, she was annoyed by his comment.

1:45.6

One nights later, when she was ruminating over bothersome things, she recalled what Fred

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