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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little: Justice O’Connor’s Three-Word Secret to Happiness

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2016

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor manages to sum up her secret of happiness in just three words. 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

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is A Little Happier. This many episode is brought to you by the moment

0:06.3

of happiness. My email newsletter where I send you a happiness quotation every day for free.

0:12.8

If you'd like to get the moment of happiness, just email me at podcast at GretchenRubin.com

0:18.4

and write quote newsletter in the subject line and I'll sign you up.

0:24.4

Years ago when I was starting out my career, I started out in law and when I was working as a lawyer,

0:29.2

I clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and that was truly extraordinary to get a chance to

0:34.9

work on the Supreme Court and to work with Justice O'Connor. Many years later, I was a writer and I

0:40.1

happened to see Justice O'Connor and I was telling her about what I was working on and I was doing

0:44.4

a lot of research and talking to everybody I could about happiness and I said to Justice O'Connor,

0:49.2

Justice, what do you think is the secret of a happy life? And Justice O'Connor answered in a flash.

0:54.8

Like she'd clearly thought about it before and she answered in just three words. She said,

0:59.7

the secret to a happy life is work worth doing and I don't think she meant, you know, a nine to five

1:07.7

job. I think she meant work very broadly defined and I've thought about that a lot and I think that

1:14.1

is really a good answer because when you think about a happy life having work worth doing is really

1:21.7

something that's going to help you get there. I'm Gritchen Rubin and I hope this makes your

1:26.8

week a little happier.

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