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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

More Happier: How to Create Connections (Or, Butter People Up), Great TV, and Fun with the Five Senses

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We talk about research into how people successfully flatter others, and how those insights can help us to build strong connections in our own relationships. We also talk about the fun TV show “Claim to Fame” and insights from the fun “What’s Your Neglected Sense?” quiz. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft on Instagram @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft 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, 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, we are here for more Happier!

0:16.2

A podcast where we get more Happier!

0:18.7

Hey, Elizabeth!

0:19.7

Hi, Grotch!

0:21.0

Today we will talk about a fascinating article about how to butter people up that I found

0:26.0

in my old notes, and we will compare notes about a TV show for quality screen time.

0:31.9

But first, something making us more happier.

0:33.6

Elizabeth, what's making you more happier?

0:35.4

Well, first of all, Grotch and I should say what's not making me more happier is my

0:39.2

cold, so forgive me if I have my scratchy cold voice.

0:43.7

It's been lingering.

0:45.0

It is lingering, but hopefully I'm on the other side.

0:48.0

But what is making me happier, Grotch, and is that I got to spend some amazing family

0:54.2

time with the fierro side of my family last week.

1:00.3

We had three days together at the beach.

1:04.0

We played a ton of games, which I love playing games.

1:08.7

You do love games.

1:09.7

For the boring games.

1:11.2

Yes, so we played Scategories, and I don't know if there are other Scategories fans

1:16.9

out there, but I had not played Scategories since I think 1991 in Rhode Island with my

1:23.4

friends.

1:24.4

I just love it.

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