Little Happier: Why a Taxi-Driver and I Saw Two Different Streets
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Lemonada Media
4.7 • 13.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:30.5 | I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. |
| 0:33.8 | One thing that's very true about the world, and yet very hard to keep in mind, |
| 0:38.5 | is that we all see things from different perspectives. |
| 0:41.8 | And the way we frame things makes a big difference in how we respond. |
| 0:46.4 | I was reminded of this truth years ago. |
| 0:48.7 | I traveled out of town to do a speaking gig and I was taking a taxi back home from the airport. |
| 0:53.5 | As the taxi headed down one of the avenues in my New York City neighborhood, |
| 0:58.2 | we passed a street where my daughter, Eleanor's school, is located. |
| 1:02.4 | This was years ago when she was in 4th grade. |
| 1:05.6 | At her school, the 4th graders, like several of the grades, had something called play street. |
| 1:11.0 | When the school blocked off both ends of the street, so that the kids could play in the street, |
| 1:15.7 | as well as on the sidewalk. |
| 1:17.7 | They didn't have a playground. They had play street. |
| 1:20.5 | As we passed, I could see that the street was blocked off and that kids were running around. |
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