Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.

I still am messing with my hair. You can tell I haven't been here for like two weeks. This is the

this will be three weeks since we last spoke. I don't know what you guys have been up to, but I have been

very, very, very busy. And in fact, the reason I didn't do the, the gathering room for a couple

of weeks was that I have been sitting in this chair. Sorry, what? Oh, I was painting. Yeah.

I have to admit that. I was sitting in a chair doing interviews from my

new book that came out. And if you bought it, thank you so much. And I hope it's helping you and

making your life better. And it turns out in the age of podcasts, a book tour involves taking

many, many people into your bedroom with you. This is my bedroom. Welcome to my

bedroom. And I've been in my bedroom with so many people over the last two weeks, all of them

over Zoom or some other technology. And I've met a lot of wonderful people and done zillions of

podcasts. And it's been wonderful, except that it got kind of exhausting and then I did

something that I have learned to do you guys I have learned to do this thing and it will

pull you back from the brink of exhaustion or mania I mean I got on the New York Times

bestseller list thanks you guys and it was like I went into a manic phase.

Then I was off the best cellar list. Because if you don't know this one single skill I'm going to talk about in this gathering room, you are at the mercy of the ups and downs of life, guys. Sorry, people.

Correct me whenever I say that.

It is people this time, and it will be forever more.

So people, there's one skill that if you don't learn it,

will put you on the roller coast of elation and despair

that we have talked about in the past.

So I was thinking about this, and the one thing I didn't want to call it was what it's called

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