Little Happier: Why Would a Sailor Decide Never to Learn to Swim?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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A yachtsman refused to learn to swim, so that if ever found himself in the water, he’d cling to the wreckage—why? Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram 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, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. 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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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by BetterHelp.
0:04.0	It's so easy to get caught up in what everyone else needs for you and never take a moment
0:09.3	to think about what you need from yourself.
0:12.4	But when we spend all of our time giving, it can leave us feeling stretched in and burned
0:17.5	out.
0:18.5	I know for me, therapy can really help me deal with this because it helps me voice what
0:25.0	I need and what I need to be focusing on is opposed to just thinking about what everyone
0:31.2	else needs.
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0:58.0	That's BetterHelp H-E-L-P dot com slash Gretchen Rubin.
1:05.4	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
1:09.0	I recently read, Clinging to the Reckage, the memoir written by writer and barrister
1:14.7	John Mortimer.
1:17.0	In the preface to explain the book's title, Mortimer recounts a remark made by a stranger
1:22.7	who was sitting next to him when they were having lunch and struck up a conversation.
1:28.6	The man said, I made up my mind when I bought my first boat, never to learn to swim.
1:37.4	Why was that?
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