Little Happier: The Memory of a Delicious Night of Sleep, Four Hundred Years Later

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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In the 1600s, Samuel Pepys kept a diary, and of everything he wrote about, including the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London fair, one thing that is remembered, so many hundreds of years later, is a delicious night of sleep he had in 1661. 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	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:03.5	Samuel Peep's was an administrator of the Navy of England and a member of Parliament who
0:09.1	is most famous for the diary he kept from 1660 to 1669 while he was still a relatively
0:18.2	young man.
0:19.8	This diary combined scenes from his personal life with eyewitness accounts of significant
0:24.3	historical events such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London.
0:30.1	I've read parts of his diary and I love this entry from Monday, September 23rd, 1661,
0:40.7	when he reflects on a night he spent during a trip he took with his wife Elizabeth.
0:47.4	And I still remember it that of all the nights that ever I slept in my life, I never did
0:53.0	pass a night with more epicurism of sleep.
0:57.4	They're being now and then a noise of people stirring that waked me and then it was a very
1:02.7	rainy night.
1:04.7	And then I was a little weary that what between waking and sleeping again, one after another,
1:11.8	I never had so much content in all my life and so my wife says it was with her.
1:19.8	I love this description, it exactly captures that delicious half asleep, half awake state
1:26.7	and I love to sleep during a rainstorm.
1:30.0	It's strange what we remember, what is remembered.
1:34.0	In 1661, Seattle Peeps took a trip to visit a few cities, he went to a fair, he saw and
1:41.2	did many things.
1:43.2	And the thing that is remembered so many hundreds of years later is a delicious night of sleep.
1:51.9	I'm Gretchen Rubin and I hope this makes your week a little happier.

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