Podcast 87: Live From Seattle! Pick Your “Happiness 911” Song, Deep Dive into Manifestos, an Interview with Chris Guillebeau, and More on the Four Tendencies.
It’s time for the next installment of “Happier with Gretchen Rubin.”
This episode was recorded live! Elizabeth and I were at Town Hall in Seattle on October 13. We had such a great time. Thanks to everyone who came. Elizabeth and I had fun doing a live video on Facebook before the show. If you want to see what everything looked like, watch here.
Elizabeth mentions the Seattle-based novel Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple.
Try This at Home: Identify your "Happiness 911" song. Please send us your Happiness 911 song! Email your choice here. We're making a Spotify playlist, so we can all listen to everyone's choices. You can find the Spotify list here or on your smart-phone app, you can find the playlist by searching "happierwithgretchenrubin" (one word).
Deep Dive: We take a closer look at manifestos. We talked about this in episode 76, and we've received so many great ones. (By the way, Adam loved Elizabeth's Marriage Manifesto.)
Interview: Chris Guillebeau. His latest book is Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do.
Happiness Stumbling Blocks for the Four Tendencies. If you want to take a quiz for the Four Tendencies, to find out if you're an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, or Rebel, it's here.
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Happiness Hack Speed Round: We took happiness hacks from the audience. So many great ideas packed into a short time -- thanks, everyone.
If you'd like to get my coloring book, you can pre-order one here. One of our audience members mentions the book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
Elizabeth’s Demerit: Elizabeth started using Candy Crush again.
Gretchen’s Gold Star: Contact lenses!
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