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Are you looking for ways to make your everyday life happier, healthier, more productive and more creative?

I'm Gretchen Rubin, the number one bestselling author of the Happiness Project,

bringing you fresh insights and practical solutions in the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

My co-host and Happiness Guinea Pig is my sister, Elizabeth Kraft.

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer in Hollywood.

Join us as we explore ideas and hacks about cultivating happiness and good habits.

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Pushkin. It's September. Fall is here, and that means back to school. My college students have already arrived on campus at Yale.

So it's time to say goodbye to beach days with a good book and late summer nights, and hello

to lecture halls, lesson plans, and an ever-growing list of priorities.

The end of summer often feels bittersweet.

If we're not careful, autumn life can start to move very quickly.

So as we switch into this new season, I want to help you find a little more happiness.

And that's why I want to spend the next few episodes sharing all the incredible insights I learned

from stuff I had a chance to read on my summer break.

In this upcoming season of the Happiness Lab, we'll be diving into some of my favorite new books from

2025. We'll hear from brilliant authors whose work can teach us lots of things that are relevant

for feeling better, like how to make better decisions, how to improve our work-life balance,

and even how to turn scary things into sources of joy. And today, we're focused on a question

that I struggle with a lot. How to say no more

often and how to mean it. Today's installment of my favorite books of 2025 is by a physician

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