Little Happier: Stephen Sondheim’s Rambling Style Wasn’t a Bug, It Was a Feature.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim dealt with a challenging situation by figuring out how to harness his own particular strengths. His loose, rambling style wasn’t a bug, it was a feature. 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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0:30.6	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:33.7	I write and collect aphorisms and I collect proverbs.
0:37.2	I especially love the proverbs of the professions, and I've learned a proverb from
0:41.6	computer programmer culture that I find myself quoting all the time.
0:46.0	It's not a bug, it's a feature. This proverb is invoked by software developers when they
0:51.4	argue that something that might be seen as a mistake or a flaw in their program
0:55.6	is actually something useful, that it has been purposefully created to do.
1:01.0	This turns out to be a surprisingly applicable idea for everyday life.
1:05.9	It's astonishing how often something that could be considered a bug can also be considered a feature.
1:12.6	And I've come to believe that we can also apply this proverb to our own nature,
1:16.7	our own strengths and weaknesses.
1:19.2	Maybe something that I consider a bug could also be seen as a feature,
1:22.9	or at least I can work with it to turn it into a feature.
1:27.9	I came across a great example of this kind of bug into feature adaptation
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