SENSES: Gretchen Rubin’s Guide to Getting Out of Your Head and Into the World

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🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What do your five senses — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch — have to do with happiness? According to Gretchen Rubin, a great deal. The world around us, she says, has the potential to dazzle, to entertain, to trigger a state of rapture. If only we pay attention. Today on the show, she shares with Rufus the tools she's developed to delight in the physical world. Gretchen's new book is "Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World." You can learn more at https://gretchenrubin.com/books/life-in-five-senses/ And be sure to check out Gretchen's audio apothecary on Spotify! The Next Big Idea is a proud member of the LinkedIn Podcast Network. Sign up for our LinkedIn newsletter where Rufus takes listeners (like you) behind the scenes of the show. Have you downloaded The Next Big Idea app? It has hundreds of book summaries and dozens of e-courses, plus ad-free versions of this podcast and invitations to live author Q&As.

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0:34.0	I'm Rufus Griskem, and this is The Next Big Idea.
0:39.0	Today, a celebration of our five senses.
0:58.3	This is one of my favorite sounds in the world.
1:04.3	That's the ambient hum, the bustle,
1:07.3	as my guest today, Gretchen Ruben calls it,
1:09.3	of the main concourse of Grand Central Station.
1:13.3	Listen, here are the hurried footsteps,
1:16.3	the indistinct voices,
1:18.3	the per and thrum of people on the go.
1:21.3	Here are how it all ricochets off the 120-foot ceiling
1:25.3	and comes back down as a kind of babbling brook.
1:30.3	We learned last week, talking with Paul Bloom,
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