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Little Happier: The Memory of a Delicious Night of Sleep, Four Hundred Years Later
In the 1600s, Samuel Pepys kept a diary, and of everything he wrote about, including the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London fair, on…
5 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 315: Sixth Anniversary! Our Most Popular Try-This-at-Home Tips, Happiness Hacks & Favorite Moments
Episode 315
In honor of our sixth anniversary—an unusual year, due to the pandemic—we look back at the previous year and highlight our favorite try-this-at-homes…
5 years, 7 months ago
Little Happier: Yogi Berra Was Funny, and He Also Hit on Some Profound Truths
Baseball legend Yogi Berra was famous for the hilarious things he said. And in his own inimitable way, he captured some profound truths.
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5 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 314: Re-Engage with Your Resolutions, A Hack for Helping People to Give Gifts, an Outdoors Demerit, and Why Humor Is Such a Powerful Tool at Work and in Life.
Episode 314
We talk about the 21 strategies that can help us re-engage with our resolutions, discuss a hack about helping people to give gifts (to avoid disappoi…
5 years, 8 months ago
Little Happier: How a Loose Piece of Popcorn in a Museum Inspired a Masterpiece
The brilliant children’s book From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was inspired when writer E. L. Konigsburg spotted a piece of popco…
5 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 313: Help People Not Disappoint You, a Hack for Reading More, a Talk with Deepa Iyer about Different Roles to Play in Social Change
Episode 313
We talk about how and why it’s a good idea to help people not disappoint us, share a reader suggestion about how to read more, and Deepa Iyer explain…
5 years, 8 months ago
Little Happier: It’s a Lot of Work to Make Friendly Gestures, But We All Have to Try.
Whenever I think about the work that it takes to try to be friendly, I remember a funny story from my daughter’s childhood.
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5 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 312: Confront a Clutter-Related Conflict, a Hack for Having Fun, and Using the Four Tendencies Framework to Get Chores Done
Episode 312
We discuss why you might confront a clutter-related conflict, how to use the Four Tendencies personality framework to help tackle clutter and chores,…
5 years, 8 months ago
Little Happier: A Beautiful Image: A Cabin in the Woods, with Flowers Growing Close to Its Walls
I’m haunted by an image from Erling Kagg’s book Walking One Step at a Time, when he describes a cabin in the wood where the owner had carefully arran…
5 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 311: Find a Manifestation of Your One-Word Theme, an Easy Hack to Spark Happy Memories, and a Conversation with Ron Lieber about the Price You Pay for College
Episode 311
We share listeners’ suggestions about creative ways to create physical representations of our one-word themes for 2021, discuss an extremely easy, fu…
5 years, 8 months ago