More Happier - A Rare Email Triumph, the Joy of KidLit, a Good Fraud Story, and the Smell of Coffee

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We talk about a rare moment of triumph over email, the joys of reading children’s literature and young-adult literature, the unforeseen consequences of taking a deep sniff of coffee, and list some interesting documentaries about fraud. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. 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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to More Happier, a podcast where we get more happier, hail to the
0:20.2	Hi, Gretchen!
0:21.2	Today we'll talk about why a good story of a fraud or a cult of personality makes a list
0:27.4	of happier and I will talk about the unforeseen consequence of my passion for this sense of
0:32.8	smell. So let's ask what is up?
0:34.9	Well one thing, Gretchen, I see you are wearing the t-shirt from our tour. Yes indeed I am, I'm
0:40.4	showing it off for people watching on YouTube. Yes, Detroit, we got them that day. That was
0:45.9	a happy thing where we were like, if only we could get some Detroit specific t-shirts to
0:51.4	wear and it appeared in front of us as if I'm magic, that was super fun. Yes, I'm wearing
0:58.4	my Puerto Rican rum t-shirt that I got for in my gift bag and fantasy island. Excellent, excellent.
1:07.6	So let's make you happier these days. Alright Gretchen, you will appreciate this being
1:12.4	the queen of the kidlit group. You have three kidlit groups. Well actually two of them have
1:17.9	now combined into one. So now it's two. Oh, okay, it was three now it's two. Yeah.
1:22.2	Okay, so you have two kidlit groups. We've talked about it many, many times. Always envied
1:27.6	your kidlit groups. Well, big breaking news. We have started a kidlit West group. So your
1:36.3	group now has a West Coast branch and I am part of it. See this makes me so intensely
1:44.4	happy. I love it. So how are you, how often are you going to meet? How are you going to
1:48.6	pick your books? Well, we're still kind of working on all that. We've gathered a group
1:53.4	through someone you met who had a friend, who had a friend and then they invited me.
1:59.0	So this is kind of how we all came together. We've met once. I think we haven't fully
2:04.5	figured out how to pick our books. One thing we're going to do, which you'll appreciate,
2:09.0	is ask you for a list of the books that your groups have done because we figure you'll
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