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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: When Your Life Feels Like “Groundhog Day”: Movies That Capture Concepts

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.713.2K 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.  Resources & links related to this episode: More Happier episode  My “24 for 24” list Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com 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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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