When an activity feels ordinary—such as texting while walking—it doesn’t feel dangerous, and that familiarity can mislead us.
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More Happier: Two Pleasures of Summer, Breaking in My Feet (Not My Shoes), and Benefits of Going “On Pause”
Ep. 435: Start a New Habit on Vacation, Cultivate Everyday Luxuries, and Memorize Street Names
Little Happier: Where Is Timbuktu?
Ep. 434: Ways to Understand a Child Better, a Hack for Showing Love, & Eleanor Gives High-School Advice
Little Happier: Why Would a Sailor Decide Never to Learn to Swim?
More Happier: The Happiness of Grabbing a Dishtowel, a Clutter-Clearing Triumph, and Getting Quality Screen Time
Ep. 433: A Surprising Way to Lift Your Mood, How to Decide Where to Move & Ideas for a Rebel Father
Little Happier: A Jammed Zipper Teaches an Important Happiness Lesson I learned a very useful lesson from a very ordinary situation.
Ep. 432: Happier Podcast Book Club: Surprise! We Talk About How “Life in Five Senses” Makes Us Happier
Little Happier: An Important Lesson from a Famous Illusionist and a Fake Gorilla
More Happier: A Great Icebreaker Question, a Startling Realization About Where We Live, and How to Know When Work Is an Escape
Ep. 431: Design Your Summer, an Easy Hack to Have More Fun with Food, and a Talk on the Joy of Dressing
Little Happier: Which of the Five Senses Do People Most Often Neglect? The Answer Is Surprising.
Ep. 430: Very Special Episode: Hacks, Hacks, and More Hacks for Making Entertaining Easier and More Fun
Little Happier: Two Staircases in the Metropolitan Museum Illustrate a Profound Truth
More Happier: Elizabeth Talks About Being on Strike as a TV Writer and Reveals Her New Philosophy of Life
Ep. 429: Try the Strategy of Unpairing, an Easy Travel/Exercise Hack, and When to Push Out of a Comfort Zone
Little Happier: “What Famous Person Was Born on My Birthday?” “You Were.”
Bonus! Hear an Excerpt from Gretchen Rubin’s New Book “Life in Five Senses.”
Ep. 428: Be a Source of Opportunity, Find Good Books to Read, and How to Cope with Difficult Family Dogs
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