Little Happier: When Your Life Feels Like “Groundhog Day”: Movies That Capture Concepts
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, the title of a movie manages to become shorthand for entire life situations—think "The Matrix," "Gaslight," and “The Devil Wears Prada.” Also, this collection illustrates my deep appreciation for the pleasure of examples.
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| 0:00.0 | Gretz, you and I both love Whole Foods Market, and as the weather gets warmer, we want to have some lighter meals. |
| 0:08.3 | Whole Foods Market has what you're looking for with great everyday prices. |
| 0:13.2 | At Whole Foods Market, you can save every day. |
| 0:15.5 | Look for the yellow low-price signs that help you save money without compromising the quality you expect from Whole Foods |
| 0:21.2 | market. Find them with their responsibly farmed Atlantic salmon, no antibiotics ever ground beef, |
| 0:27.3 | and boneless, skinless chicken breasts, plus more throughout the store. Yellow really means savings |
| 0:32.1 | at Whole Food Market because their sale signs are also yellow. So basically, whenever you see yellow, |
| 0:37.3 | you know you're saving |
| 0:38.1 | money. Save on the best of spring with great everyday prices at Whole Foods Market. |
| 0:45.3 | Lemonada. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a Happier. Recently, on an episode of More Happier, |
| 0:55.3 | my sister Elizabeth and I talked about a question I'd been pondering just for the fun of it. |
| 1:00.1 | What are specific movies that stand for entire concepts? We were trying to think of as many movies as |
| 1:06.7 | possible, where we can invoke a whole concept or situation just by saying the name of the movie. |
| 1:13.1 | For instance, if I said, gosh, I really want to find a different job, it's Groundhog Day around here. |
| 1:19.8 | You'd know what I meant. |
| 1:21.3 | Or if I said, gosh, I really want to find a different job, it's the devil wears Prada around here. |
| 1:27.2 | You'd know that I meant something quite different. I find a different job. It's the devil wears Prada around here. You'd know that I meant |
| 1:28.2 | something quite different. I find it extremely entertaining to think about this question. |
| 1:34.4 | Last year, one item on my 24 for 24 list was to make a list of 24 things that please me. I enjoyed |
| 1:41.1 | this exercise so much that I'm doing it again for 2025. In fact, if I make a list like this for the next few years, as I expect I will, I'm thinking that I might make a little book out of it. I was trying to give a name to whatever it is that pleases me so much about this exercise. And I think, though I'm still not sure, that it's the pleasure of examples. |
| 2:03.6 | It's so satisfying when someone offers up an interesting idea and then provides many apt or surprising examples. |
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