Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 536: Make a Before-&-After Book, Enter the Library, and How to Deal with a Questioner Spouse


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We discuss how creating before-and-after photo books of renovations or improvements can bring satisfaction and preserve memories. Our happiness hack suggests visiting your local library (or museum) for the first time; that first visit can be surprising to make. We also share listeners’ strategies for handling a spouse who asks too many questions at inopportune times.

Resources & links related to this episode:

  • Order your copy of Secrets of Adulthood
  • Read 25 in 25
  • Bookshop
  • Pledge to Read 25 on June 25th 
  • Visit The Happiness Project shop for Father's Day gifts
  • Elizabeth is reading: All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert (Amazon, Bookshop)
  • Gretchen is reading: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Amazon, Bookshop)


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