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Gretchen Rubin On The Power Of Exploring Your Senses

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Ryan speaks with Gretchen Rubin about her new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World, how our reality is composed entirely of our perceptions, her striving to better accept herself while still expecting more from herself, the wisdom that can be found with reading and re-reading great books, her former boss Sandra Day O’Connor, and more. 🎧 Subscribe to the Daily Stoic Podcast: https://dailystoic.com/podcast/ Gretchen Rubin is an author, blogger, podcaster, and speaker whose work focuses on happiness, habits, and human nature. She has written ten books, including the best-selling and widely influential Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project, and her writings have sold more than two million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages. Gretchen’s podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, on which she and her sister Elizabeth Craft discuss happiness and good ha …...more
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Intro

0:00

Gladiator

0:20

Smell blindness

2:34

Lack of smell

3:37

High notes of taste

6:09

Wild blackberries

7:01

Sameness

8:16

Exploring your senses

10:12

Brussels sprouts

11:13

Your mind is your friend

13:04

Acquired taste

14:09

The Metropolitan Museum

17:54

Managing to cram in

19:12

The drugstore incident

21:18

Rereading

22:47

Notetaking

23:59

Translations

26:08

Favorite Translation

27:47

Scientific Oracle

29:58

Hand Over Control

30:43

John Cage

33:52

Dont trust your senses

38:06

Taste

41:40

Acceptance

44:00

Stoic Perspective

45:36

Audio Apothecary

51:27

Teaching Stories

54:44

The Secret To Happiness

58:02
Gretchen Rubin On The Power Of Exploring Your Senses
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2023May 9
Ryan speaks with Gretchen Rubin about her new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World, how our reality is composed entirely of our perceptions, her striving to better accept herself while still expecting more from herself, the wisdom that can be found with reading and re-reading great books, her former boss Sandra Day O’Connor, and more. 🎧 Subscribe to the Daily Stoic Podcast: https://dailystoic.com/podcast/ Gretchen Rubin is an author, blogger, podcaster, and speaker whose work focuses on happiness, habits, and human nature. She has written ten books, including the best-selling and widely influential Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project, and her writings have sold more than two million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages. Gretchen’s podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, on which she and her sister Elizabeth Craft discuss happiness and good habits, has been downloaded over 220 million times. All this and more can be found on her website: gretchenrubin.com. ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ Instagram: ​  / dailystoic   Twitter:   / dailystoic   Facebook:   / dailystoic   TikTok:   / daily_stoic   #Stoicism​ #DailyStoic​ #RyanHoliday​

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