Little Happier: When Zero Isn't Nothing: The Fresh Eyes of a Basketball Beginner
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Lemonada Media
4.7 • 13.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The weather is warming up and it is time for picnics. At Whole Foods Market, you can save every day. |
| 0:06.3 | Look for the yellow low price signs that help you save money without compromising the quality you expect from Whole Foods Market. |
| 0:13.7 | Find them with their responsibly farmed Atlantic salmon, no antibiotics ever ground beef, and bonelessless chicken breasts plus more throughout the store yellow |
| 0:23.6 | really means savings at whole foods market because their sale signs are also yellow so basically |
| 0:29.6 | wherever you see yellow you know you're saving money save on the best of spring with great |
| 0:35.1 | everyday prices at Whole Foods Market. |
| 0:40.8 | Lemonada |
| 0:41.2 | I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. |
| 0:47.9 | I've talked about my Operation Nix knowledge where I've decided to take a deep interest |
| 0:52.7 | in New York City's basketball team, |
| 0:54.9 | the Knicks. I wanted to see if I could make myself get interested in a subject, and I have. |
| 1:00.7 | Going to Knicks games have led me to many questions, observations, and many trains of thought |
| 1:05.5 | that I would never otherwise have had. For instance, I grew curious about jersey numbers. Did players get to choose their |
| 1:14.0 | own numbers? I looked it up, and the answer is, yes, within certain guidelines and restrictions. |
| 1:20.1 | Interesting. Then, at a game in Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks played the Denver Nuggets, |
| 1:26.8 | I saw that Nuggets player Christian |
| 1:29.0 | bronze jersey number was zero. The fact of players could choose the number zero for their jersey |
| 1:35.8 | absolutely astonished me. First of all, I was surprised that zero was considered a number for the |
| 1:44.0 | purposes of basketball jerseys. |
| 1:46.2 | This policy actually demonstrates an extraordinarily sophisticated understanding of numbers. |
| 1:52.6 | The fact is, humankind was very slow to recognize the idea that zero could be a number. |
| 1:58.7 | How could nothing be something? |
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