Little Happier: Why It’s So Important to Identify the Problem—and Why It’s Easy to Skip This Essential Step

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Growing up, I thought I disliked exercise. When I realized that, in fact, I don’t like games or sports, I was able to find ways to exercise that worked for me. 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. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts— Side Hustle School and Happier in Hollywood. 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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0:30.9	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. In my book The Happiness Project I made a list of my 12 personal
0:38.4	commandments, the overarching precepts that I used to guide my thoughts and actions. My eighth
0:45.3	personal commandment is to identify the problem. That is, when I'm annoyed,
0:51.6	angered, or frustrated, I pause to ask myself, what exactly is the problem
0:57.5	here?
0:58.5	Identify the problem seems like such an obvious thing to do. yet grasping this idea was a real happiness project
1:06.0	breakthrough for me. When I pinpoint the actual source of a problem, it's much easier to
1:12.1	see how to solve it. Even if that solution isn't
1:15.4	simple, it's clearer. But it's harder to do this than it sounds. In my
1:22.4	experience people often skip this essential step, people including
1:26.5	me. We realize something is wrong or that we're unhappy but we have only a vague sense of what the actual problem is.
1:37.0	And because we don't pinpoint the specific problem, the specific source of our bad feeling,
1:42.0	we're often not very effective when we try to address
1:45.8	that problem. Now you might think this doesn't make any sense. If I have a problem
1:51.6	how is it possible that I haven't identified it?
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