Little Happier: You Can’t Win the Hands You Don’t Play

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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A thought-provoking collection of proverbs from poker-players offers wisdom even to people who aren’t playing poker. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; podcast@gretchenrubin.com Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. 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—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! 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	Many of us are already planning our New Year's resolutions to work out more in 2023.
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0:30.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is A Little Happier.
0:32.7	I love Proverbs, True Rules, Secrets of Adulthood, Coins, Paradoxes, and Teaching stories.
0:38.7	And I also love Aferisms.
0:41.6	An Aferism is a concise, powerful, general observation attributed to a particular person.
0:47.8	Because Aferisms are sharp and short, they're grand generalizations, and by saying little,
0:52.8	they manage to suggest a lot. I'm working on a collection of my own original Aferisms,
0:58.4	and I'm also collecting my favorite Aferisms written by other people, as well as my favorite
1:03.9	Proverbs. In particular, I'm collecting Proverbs of the Professions.
1:09.8	Proverbs from Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, Schienstructures, Accountants,
1:14.3	Computer Programmers, Horse Trainers, I am collecting them all.
1:18.4	I particularly love the Proverbs I've collected about poker playing.
1:23.6	They're so thought-provoking, and as is so often the case,
1:27.7	when a proverb or Aferism applies in one situation, it's likely to apply to many situations.
1:34.6	Here are some of my favorite Proverbs of poker players.
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