Little Happier: Someone Else’s Enthusiasm is a Powerful Teacher

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Little Happier: Someone Else’s Enthusiasm is a Powerful Teacher 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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0:00.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:04.1	I look back on all my years of education in grade school, high school, college and
0:10.7	law school and I think, what do I remember?
0:15.1	What did I learn?
0:16.6	What changed my thinking?
0:18.8	What sticks with me?
0:21.2	When I think back about all the classes I took as an English major in college, I feel
0:26.0	like I don't remember much.
0:28.7	But two moments stick out with particular clarity and I've reflected on why that is.
0:35.8	One moment came during a class in 19th century American poetry.
0:40.0	My professor was lecturing about Emily Dickinson and the class was almost over and he said
0:45.0	something like, I have no time to digress but how can I resist?
0:50.8	And he started reading from a poem.
0:53.8	Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me.
0:57.7	The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
1:02.0	We slowly drove, he knew no haste and I had put away my labor and my leisure too for his
1:08.2	civility.
1:10.5	And I remember another moment from another English class which was about the plays of Shakespeare.
1:15.9	When my professor noted as we discussed the play Antony and Cleopatra that this was her
1:21.5	favorite line at all of Shakespeare.
1:24.9	The Cleopatra says of Antony, his delights were dolphin-like.
1:29.6	They showed his back above the element they lived in.
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