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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

More Happier: Very First Episode [Revisited]

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

For our 10th anniversary, we’re revisiting our very first episode of Happier. We discuss how the “one-minute rule” contributes to outer order and inner calm, the difference between a satisficer and a maximizer, and the one-coin loophole. Plus, for the first time, we give ourselves Demerits and Gold Stars.  Resources & Links Related to this episode: One Minute Rule Are you a satisficer or a maximizer? Better than Before Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:08.9

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1:13.9

Lemonada. Hello, we're here for more happier, a podcast where we get more of the happier

1:31.8

podcast.

1:33.1

It's weekend listening with a happier vibe.

1:35.6

And Elizabeth, today we are revisiting our very first episode ever.

1:40.9

It has been 10 years.

1:42.8

How bonkers is that? Yes, Gretchen. I cannot believe it.

1:47.1

It's very exciting. Okay. So when we did our first episode, so I was in a studio and you were in a

1:54.5

studio, right? Yes, I went to a studio in Culver City. I think it might have even been in some sort of NPR studio.

2:02.6

Oh, right. Yeah. And I was at Panoply, and we were super nervous. And I think we rehearsed the whole thing in advance. And then I remember on the way home, I called you. And we debriefed for like an hour. How did it go? What did we think?

2:20.1

What were we thinking while it was happening? What was the vibe like? We were super excited,

2:25.7

but we were definitely doing something that we had never done before. It was a lot.

2:29.3

Nor did we know a lot about podcasts. They were just getting popular. I had listened to serial and that was it pretty

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