More Happier - The Joy of Being a Minor Expert, Having Two Dogs, and Counting Your Steps

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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We talk about why learning more about the Beatles and watching short videos makes us happier—and the experience of having two dogs. Plus a listener explains the satisfaction of tracking daily steps. 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, we're here for more Happier a podcast where we get more happier.
0:07.0	Hey Elizabeth.
0:08.0	Hi Grouch.
0:09.0	Today we're going to talk about why becoming a minor expert makes us happier.
0:14.4	And Elizabeth will tell us about life with two dogs.
0:18.0	So Elizabeth, what's making you happier these days?
0:21.2	Okay, what is making me happier is reels.
0:25.1	Okay.
0:26.1	Which is something on Facebook and what I find interesting about this is I feel like we
0:29.8	talk all the time about how social media can often make us less happy because you know
0:35.4	it causes the keeping up with the Joneses and how many likes do I have and all that stuff.
0:40.6	Doom scrolling.
0:42.1	Doom scrolling exactly.
0:43.9	But I've been noticing lately reels our short videos on Facebook and you can put funny
0:49.3	text over them and you can have audio.
0:53.2	And what I've been noticing is they just come up randomly.
0:56.3	You don't follow them, right?
0:58.3	I don't subscribe to them.
0:59.6	They just come up on my Facebook and what's interesting is it's people all basically just
1:05.3	looking really silly.
1:06.3	You know, a lot of dancing, a lot of practical jokes, a lot of people doing funny things.
1:14.0	And I feel like it's a way to just bring us all together.
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