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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: What Seems Important Isn’t Always What’s Actually Important

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

What seems important when events are unfolding isn’t always what turns out to be most significant, when we look back. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

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0:12.0

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0:14.8

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0:17.1

Uh, yeah, that sounds important.

0:20.0

Does work chat will sound like gibberish to you?

0:22.3

Find collaborative articles with tips from the LinkedIn community

0:25.0

to help you get through those tricky conversations.

0:28.0

Making work makes sense.

0:29.0

LinkedIn knows how.

0:30.0

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. I'm writing my secrets of adulthood and one of my secrets of adulthood is what seems important isn't always what is important.

0:43.8

For instance, when the first Roman emperor Seesus Augustus died, he nearly doubled the

0:49.7

size of the empire, defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra of Egypt, ended Civil Wars,

0:55.3

streamlined administration, fostered trade, funded numerous construction projects and fostered

1:00.8

the arts. Looking back, the most significant historical event

1:05.3

during his reign was the birth of Jesus. Another example, the First World War

1:11.9

was one of the deadliest world conflicts in history.

1:15.0

It led to carnage on a massive scale and spurred technological advances in the use of war points,

1:21.0

submarines, machine guns, artillery, tanks, and poison gas.

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