Little Happier: The Paradox of Purpose: Those We Support Become Our Strength

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Two teaching stories from very different contexts both illuminate a powerful truth: Our deepest source of resilience often comes from caring for others. Get in touch: [email protected] Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app. 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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1:00.6	I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier.
1:03.9	As I have mentioned countless times, I love a fable, a paradox, Cohen, secretive adulthood, aphorism, or a teaching story.
1:13.5	I especially love a teaching story.
1:16.3	I recently read the novel Martyr by Kavei Akbar, and I highly recommend it.
1:22.1	I love that novel.
1:24.2	In it, Ali, who is the father of the main character Cyrus, reflects on a hadith he'd heard as a child.
1:31.8	A hadith is a recorded saying or action of the prophet Muhammad, and these have been collected in various compilations.
1:39.6	Ali recounts,
1:41.5	Once, when I was a boy, our teacher told us the hadith of the starving man. The man was
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