More Happier: The Joys of Working in an Office, Making Great Recommendations & Tom Cruise Cake
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We talk about why working in an office can be a source of happiness—and why making a very successful recommendation is so satisfying. Plus we talk about why a quest is more fun than a jaunt.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that infants are ready to learn sign language? |
| 0:03.5 | Two-year-olds are ready to learn the basics of science, and three-year-olds are ready to learn coding? |
| 0:08.9 | Your child is ready to learn, and at Primrose schools, teachers make the most of this time by creating a joyful, purposeful learning experience unlike any other. |
| 0:19.4 | For instance, have you heard of the Primrose Friends? In every |
| 0:23.8 | Primrose school classroom, teachers use these 12 lovable puppets to make character development |
| 0:30.2 | joyful, meaningful, and memorable. From exploring generosity with Benjamin the Bear to practicing honesty with Peanut the Pony, |
| 0:40.6 | every friend plays a special part in helping children learn important values while having |
| 0:46.9 | plenty of fun along the way. We can all use some friends like that. You can learn more at primrose schools.com. Now enrolling infants through |
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| 1:21.7 | They can generate code, edit images, multitask without lag, draft emails, summarize documents, create live translations. |
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| 2:07.1 | Lemonada. Hello, we are here for more happier, a podcast where we get happier. |
| 2:24.4 | It's the weekend. |
| 2:25.7 | It's observations and reflections with a bit of a looser vibe. |
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