Little Happier: Trevor Noah: “We Tell People to Follow Their Dreams, But You Can Only Dream of What You Can Imagine.”

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In his terrific memoir “Born a Crime,” Trevor Noah notes that “you can only dream of what you can imagine,” and tells the story of how his mother worked to give him a big imagination. 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	Think You Know Disney Plus? Think Again?
0:05.0	Stream everything from hit musicals like Encanto.
0:09.0	We must protect our family! This is my chance! I will save the magic!
0:15.0	To the years best movies like award-winning the banshee's of Inish Erin.
0:19.0	I just don't like you no more. Don't like me yesterday?
0:23.0	Think You Know Disney Plus? Think Again.
0:26.0	18 Plus subscription-acquired TZZ surprise.
0:30.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is A Little Happier.
0:33.0	In episode 283 of The Happier Podcast, I recommended the brilliant, hilarious, poignant,
0:39.0	page-turning memoir, Born a Crime,
0:42.0	Stories from a South African childhood by Trevor Noah,
0:45.0	who's a comedian and host of the TV show The Daily Show on Comedy Central.
0:50.0	You have probably heard of the book or already read it.
0:52.0	It was a number one New York Times bestseller and was named as one of the best books of the year
0:56.0	by The New York Times, NPR, and Booklist among others.
1:00.0	Since I read it, I found myself referring often to one particular passage that really stuck in my mind.
1:06.0	Trevor Noah described how even with all the restrictions of apartheid, his mother took him on all sorts of adventures.
1:13.0	He writes,
1:14.0	My mother took me places black people never went.
1:17.0	He recounts how they drove through fancy neighborhoods, they went to the ice skating rink,
1:21.0	they went to the drive-in movie theater that gave him a 360-degree view of the city at the top of a huge hill.
1:27.0	They went all over.
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