Little Happier: Should Money Be Used to Buy Fresh Flowers for a Museum?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Should Money Be Used to Buy Fresh Flowers for a Museum? By posing an interesting question—such as “Should money be spent on flowers?”—we can learn about other people’s values. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. 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— Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. 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	This show is sponsored by Better Help.
0:05.0	Whether or not your family gives gifts during the holidays, you get to define how you give to yourself.
0:11.0	And the holidays are a great time to do that.
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0:17.8	I know for me it's one of the best gifts
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0:49.7	That's Better Help, H-E-L-P.com slash Gretchen Rubin.
0:56.6	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:59.7	When conversation is flagging
1:01.6	and I'm trying to spark an interesting discussion. I sometimes
1:04.9	pose a thought-provoking question. Here's one that I've been asking lately. In
1:10.5	1967,
1:13.0	Wallace funded a multi-million dollar endowment
1:16.0	so that the Metropolitan Museum could display enormous arrangements
1:20.0	of fresh flowers in the Great Hall.
1:22.0	What do you think of that particular use of the money?
1:26.0	It's an interesting question and I've asked it several times. I've heard different answers.
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