We talk about why the sight of snow monkeys relaxing in hot springs makes us happier, how we can know ourselves better and grow closer to friends at the same time, and Elizabeth has an observation about the TV show “Love Is Blind.”
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Something Making Us More Happier
- Elizabeth: Before, the prospect of going on adventure was making her happier. Now, it’s being home.
- Gretchen: Adobe’s Creative Types Quiz to help you “Discover your creative personality.” I mention my Four Tendencies quiz, which divides people into Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels.
Quality Screen Time
I suggest watching the three-minute video from National Geographic, Meditative Snow Monkeys Hang Out in Hot Springs. It’s beautiful.
Elizabeth suggests the Netflix reality show Love Is Blind.
Spotlight on a Tool
A listener explained how she uses the Know Yourself Better Journal as a way to connect with her best friend.
I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You
Fantasy Island question: Why is Elena Roarke the grand-niece of Mr. Roarke? That’s such a specific choice.
Quotation
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature—not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant….As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother’s toy garden.