'Try This': Go find some joy
The 7
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this class in our audio course on finding joy, host Cristina Quinn explores practical exercises to help you embrace joy in everyday life. Steven Petrow, author of “The Joy You Make” and a contributing columnist for The Post, shares how things like wandering without a destination and rediscovering play can open the door to more joy, even during life’s toughest moments.
Steven helps you learn how to cultivate joy through presence and curiosity, the transformative power of “getting lost” to create unexpected moments of connection, and how to embrace play — without the pressure to win.
For more of Steven’s work on joy, read about how he found joy during the most difficult times in his life and how he learned to build play into his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Reni Sarnovsky. The Seven will be back tomorrow with a regular episode to close out the week. |
| 0:07.1 | Today, we have something for you that will hopefully inspire some joy. |
| 0:11.4 | Our colleague, Christina Quinn, when she's not helping with The Seven, hosts a show called Try This. |
| 0:16.5 | Every new season is a course. Think of it as practical advice for life's common challenges. |
| 0:21.7 | And the new season explores ways to find more joy in our lives. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm going to play you this second episode in a moment. It's about specific ways to cultivate joy. |
| 0:31.7 | I hope you enjoy it. And if you do, go find try this wherever you're listening and start from the beginning. |
| 0:38.0 | In the first episode, Christina speaks with a scientist who studies happiness. |
| 0:42.4 | For now, I hope you're having a good week and that you find some joy at the end of this year and in 2025. |
| 0:48.7 | Here's Christina. |
| 0:51.1 | Hey, welcome back to Try This from The Washington Post. |
| 0:54.0 | This is the second of three classes in our |
| 0:56.6 | course about creating more joy in your day-to-day. In our first class, we spoke with |
| 1:02.3 | scientist Emiliana Simon Thomas about the factors that influence our happiness. In the second class, |
| 1:08.5 | we're going to share some exercises that can help you cultivate joy. And I spoke to |
| 1:12.9 | someone who says it's easier than you might think. In some of your darker moments, what have your |
| 1:18.3 | friends called you? Sometimes they call me Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. Eeyore, as in the chronically |
| 1:25.5 | depressed donkey, who tends to lose his tail. |
| 1:28.7 | But human Eeyore found that even during some of the most difficult times in his life, |
| 1:33.1 | joy wasn't far within reach, and he wrote a book about it. |
| 1:36.8 | I'm Stephen Petro, contributing columnist for the Washington Post, |
| 1:39.8 | and the author of The Joy You Make. |
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