Little Happier: The Lesson I Learned from the Thumbtack in My Shoe.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

I had a pain in my foot, and I blamed my foot—until a friend pointed out that I had a tack in my shoe. Whenever I get frustrated, I remind myself that I shouldn’t be too quick to hold myself responsible for the problem. Sometimes the problem is me. But sometimes the problem is something else. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. 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	Hello, you.
0:01.6	Listening to your favorite podcast again.
0:04.9	A little predicted beloved you, don't you think?
0:06.7	My latest heartbreak has been a catalyst that has brought me to London.
0:09.9	I spend my days as a professor and my nights with friends.
0:13.2	It's a generous way to describe them, but I have to stay close.
0:15.7	There's a killer out there picking them off,
0:18.7	all while trying to frame me.
0:20.5	I laugh at the irony if it weren't so serious.
0:23.0	Someone is watching me.
0:24.1	I can feel it.
0:25.3	Is it you?
0:26.4	You. You. Now streaming only on Netflix.
0:30.4	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:33.9	When I was a junior in college, I started to experience a sharp stabbing pain in my right foot.
0:40.0	Now, usually it wouldn't bother me, but sometimes it would make me jump in pain.
0:44.7	My foot never hurt when I was sitting or lying down, only when I was putting weight on that foot.
0:50.4	I ignored it for a while.
0:51.7	Then the pain got mad enough that I headed for the first time ever to the Campus Health Center.
0:58.1	But the way to see a doctor or nurse was so long that I gave up and went back to my dorm room.
1:03.6	As it happened when I came back, my roommates were sitting around, so I joined them.
1:08.0	After a while, when my roommates said to me, I want to go for a run, but my shoes are wet.
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