More Happier: Navigating New Year Pressure with Gretchen Rubin on "The Lazy Genius" [Revisited]
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Already exhausted by the new year? In this conversation on the "Lazy Genius" podcast, host Kendra Adachi and I explore why “fresh start” culture creates so much anxiety—and how being “lazy” about some things can help you focus on what truly matters in January.
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| 1:13.7 | If you're already exhausted by New Year pressure, you are not alone. I joined Kendra Adachi on the terrific lazy genius podcast for a conversation about that feeling. Her whole philosophy is that |
| 1:20.3 | being lazy in the areas that don't matter allows us to be a genius in the areas that do, |
| 1:26.5 | especially useful to remember in January. |
| 1:29.3 | We started by talking about how perfectionism can stop our progress, just as we're trying to improve our lives, |
| 1:35.3 | and what to do when we notice that's starting to happen. |
| 1:39.3 | Here's the conversation. |
| 1:41.3 | Well, as we start, we both spend a lot of time thinking about how to make every day better |
| 1:50.1 | without making every day perfect. |
| 1:55.2 | And there is a difference between the two. |
| 1:58.2 | I don't know about you. |
| 1:59.8 | It took me a long time and a lot of therapy to actually |
| 2:03.0 | divorce the two words better and perfect. How do you feel about the word perfect? How do you feel |
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