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  1. “It's interesting though some people don't like a small, they want to go bigger, but go home, they're not interested in incremental change. They like radical, they like big things. And again, it's not that there's one way this right or one way that's wrong. It's just whatever works for you. If small works for you, that's great. If small is boring to you and you're not going to stick to it, do something big and bold. It's like, you know, there's a lot of ways to do this. It just depends. There's no magic one size fits all solution, I think. It's just whatever works for us as individuals.”

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  2. “Safeguards, which is the strategy of thinking how might I screw up, how might I abandon this habit? I'm going to think about what is likely to make me not do it, and I'm going to figure out a way to solve for that. And you're like, if I make this too much, I'm going to put it off or I do it. I'm going to make, so I'm taking into account how I might fail. I'm going to figure out a way to do it so I don't fail. So again, it's like it's not that hard when you know what to do. At the same time, you know, it can be very challenging, especially if you do it in a way that's not right for you.”

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  3. “Is a question. That's the whole inspiration for better than before. I was just like, what do people do? And it turns out there's 21 strategies people use. And some work better for some people, and some work better for others, and some don't work for some people. You know, some people, some don't work at all, and some you can use it sometimes in your life and not at other times in your life. But it's good to know the whole panoply of them because then you can say, okay, these three sound good, because you just, you said pairing, which is doing it before you brush your teeth.”

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  4. “I write a lot. That's like the whole thing in my book better than before, which is all about habit change. That's like a big theme is start small, start big, like, how do you think about that? How do you, if you have a habit like that, how might you think, how might you analyze yourself to know what's going to work for you? Because that's a perfect example of the kind of habit that it's like it can be in a way it's not hard. In a way, it's extremely hard. And like, how do you get yourself to succeed?”

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  5. “Fill your mind. In a bite-sized piece rather than thinking, okay, I got to sit down and read Odes, intimations of immortality and get this thing done, or I'm working my way through Paradise Lost. And you're like, okay, one page a day. Just do one page a day and then that'll be enough to kind of reset your brain in a positive way. Yeah.”

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  6. “Well, it's interesting because I have this, like I said, I have this, it's called Moment of Happiness newsletter where every day I send out like a quotation about happiness or human nature. And a lot of people say, oh, they like it because I think for you, like you're seeking out poetry, but for some people, and you can even go with like the poetry foundation, I think we'll send you an email with a poem every day if you want that. But this is like people like to have that practice of some kind of transcendent reading first thing in the morning or right before bed where it's like it's curated, it's something that's like more beautifully expressed or a more interesting idea than you're going to read in the newspaper or whatever it's some kind of timeless thing that for whatever reason is going to put your brain in a different place as you start your day or end your day. And I think it's a great thing. I'm a big believer in like things this like have something be a small thing that you can take in and kind of let”

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  7. “But you know what's interesting is that both you and I have talked, and I had not put my finger on this until I heard what you just said, which is like we've both kind of done things to try to explicitly offset very like pronounced parts of our personality. Like you've been trying to use this to offset your questioning side. And I've been trying to use color to bring me into the visual world, which is hard for me because I'm so verbal. And so I've been trying to counter that by making a study of color. So maybe it is kind of this, the opposite of a profound truth is also true and that you need to kind of figure out, well, if you're too yin, how do you achieve your yang? And maybe both of us are trying to get some kind of balance. And I hadn't thought about that as kind of a pattern, but now I'm thinking maybe there's a big lesson here. I want to study how do people do it. It's a pretty subtle thing.”

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  8. “Head expl Was off to the races It's also like an entrepreneurial type. A lot of people I know who are questerners, they're like, I don't want to work for anyone else because I don't trust anybody's judgment the way I trust my own. If I'm telling myself what to do, I know there's a good reason. If other people are like involved in this, it's hard for me. Like maybe there's a few trusted people that I could rely on, but I don't want to be part of a big system where I'm like, I don't know why people are making these decisions.”

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  9. “Why is this a big waste of my time? And it's like all it would take is such, like instead of you having this whole kindergarten experience, which was just, I mean, the simplest response, respectful response to your question, would have solved this. It's just to me. So poignant and such a waste”

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  10. “Can I say that is what's so poignant to me about questioners is like I heard I heard story after story exactly like the one you told where if somebody had literally taken 10 minutes and sat down with the child and spoken to them in a reasonable way and been like this is why we're asking you to do this the child would have been like cool I get it oh 10 seconds is for somebody to just like explain”

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  11. “They're like, I don't like that. And so partly it's for questioners to realize how they can ask questions in a way that seem constructive rather than making other people feel sort of defensive or exhausted because there's huge value to the questioner's questioning. And in some places, some work environments or whatever, it's very rewarded and praised, but then some places it's like, hey, listen, we're here to do a corporate says. And it's not interesting for us to hear you complain about why you don't think it's a good idea. Like get with a program, stop interrupting the meetings. Like you're keeping everybody, you know, so if you're a questioner, you maybe want to know what kind of environment are you getting into? Because one might suit you better than another. I don't know. Does this resonate with you? Does this strike a chord?”

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  12. “Why should I have to memorize the multiplication tables if I can just look it up on my phone just as quickly and more accurately? And the teacher's like, because I say so, or because all 10-year-olds have to do it, or because that's what you do in fourth grade, the question is going to be like, well, that's ridiculous and that's no answer, and I'm not going to do it. And so they're perceived by the child, by the teachers being disrespectful or uncooperative, but to the questioner, this makes perfect sense. Or you get a thin-skinned boss. And the boss is like, your questions make me feel like you're rejecting my authority. You're undermining my judgment. You're not a team player. I don't want to work with you. And it's like, but to the questioner, they're like, well, this is how I add value to the team. How can I be a better team player? But then to say to everybody, this is a crazy idea. Why would we ever do this? This is a big waste of our time. But to the boss”

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  13. “Really experiences this as far as I can tell, but for some questioners, it's something where they need to figure out how to contain that so that they can move forward. And funnily enough, often analysis paralysis seems to be about little things, not big things. Like it's like a person might not have any trouble deciding to switch careers, but if they were trying to decide what kind of tent to buy, that could really hold them up. It seems to be like something with those kinds of things seem to be the things that become the stumbling block. And then also for questioners, and this is something really about a problem that questioners have with others, is that if you're a questioner, they can sometimes be perceived as by others as being disrespectful, insubordinate, undermining.”

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  14. “The downsides for questioners is sometimes they can drain and overwhelm people with their questioning like everybody else is like, why are we still talking about this? And you're like, but what about this? And what about this? And what about this? So to the questioner, this is like, of course we can't move forward until all these questions are answered because why would we waste our time and our energy if we don't think it's the right thing to do? But to other people, like if you're in a team or something, sometimes people, you know, start getting exasperated and exhausted because they feel like it's too many questions. Some questioners experienced analysis paralysis, which is when they want perfect information. And so it's hard to make a decision or move forward because they're like, it's like, you know, what's the best email service provider? You don't, how I could do more and more and more research on that. And like, oh, maybe I should do this. Maybe I should do that. Or, you know, I want to buy a bike. What's the best bike? And so it can be hard. Some question, my husband's a questioner.”

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  15. “It's the ones that they'll meet inner expectations, but if they think they make sense, they'll meet an expectation, but if they think it doesn't make sense, if it's arbitrary or inefficient, they push back.”

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  16. “If you go to GretchenRubin.com, that's rubin.com, there's all sorts of information, resources, videos, contact. If you contact me through my blog, it really does come straight through to me. You can see my podcast, learn more about my books. Like there's way more there than you would ever want to know. Read about color. Yeah. Yeah, go to GretchenRuben.com. Or the podcast is called Happier with GretchenRuben if you're looking for a podcast.”

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  17. “I just wasn't. I was, you know, kind of, I think some people can really, really work on airplanes. And if you do, then maybe you want to do that because it's a really good place for you to work. But I was not getting quality work done on an airplane.”

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  18. “She will only read for fun on the plane, in the airport, there's no expectation that she's going to work. And to me, this is dramatically improved my experience of travel, and I've got an amazing amount of reading done because it wasn't even like I was getting that much work done, but I felt like I should be working. For sure. But now I'm just now what? Like I read Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan. Like I had a flight, like a flight from London. Plus, I had all the time in Heathrow. I'm like, I read the whole book from the time that I left to the time that I landed. I think I only had a few chapters left by the time because I just read the whole time. It's so satisfying. And now I like traveling so much better because I really look forward to having that really concentrated reading time. And I wasn't getting much work done anyway. I mean, honestly.”

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  19. “I don't know. I really don't know how much time I read. It probably varies tremendously. Oh, but here's a great tip that somebody told me, and this has really changed my reading. She said to me that if you're a person who travels a lot for work, as Tim, you and I both do, her rule is she only reads for pleasure when she's traveling for work. So from the minute that she gets to the airport to the minute, but she'll work in the hotel room, to the minute that she gets to the hotel.”

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  20. “You know, I don't know, and that is a great question because every week on Facebook I post a picture of the books that I read that week and I don't have any kind of, I don't do any editorializing or any explanation, but if I've read it, I'd put a picture of it. And if I don't like a book, I don't finish it. So if I finished it, it means I liked it well enough to finish it. Every week I have read books, but I feel like I spend no time reading, and I'm constantly thinking to myself, how can I find more time to read? How can I find more time to go to the library? How can I find more time to like, you know, have 457 books on my library list in my phone? I just need to make more time to read. And yet I must have read in then I do a lot of research. I'm always taking notes off things I've read. So to me, it is a mystery. And I know I should do time logging like Laura Vanderkamp says and like really write it down like a lawyer and figure out where is my time where am I reading?”

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  21. “Can rewrite something like Wiseblood, but I reread her nonfiction a lot because I love her nonfiction. I love her voice. And it's a lot easier to take. So for rereading, I probably reread nonfiction a lot. And then I love like Robertson Davies, Jane Austen, sometimes if I want to reread a novel, I'll read something like that.”

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  22. “Like, you know, probably like I've reread a lot of nonfiction, like a book that I love that I have read so many times is Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Young, Into the Wild by Chan Crack, our selected essays by George Orwell, or there's I have my favorite essays that I will go read. Some of them are in the short collection, some aren't. Samuel Johnson essays I read and reread a lot. I love Samuel Johnson. I love Virginia Wolf. She kind of blows my head open, so it's hard for me to reread it. I'll often reread her nonfiction. Same thing with Flannery O'Con It really is so mind blowing that I almost can't take it. I have to be in a very particular emotion.”

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  23. “So unbelievably good, and the characters are so unbelievably compelling and the world is so unbelievably interesting. And it's like nothing you've ever read before. And it's like connected to the deepest core of thinking and philosophy. That is a towering masterpiece. Yeah. So I would say the golden compass by Philip Pullman. But it's scary and it's challenging.”

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  24. “Why it gets trickier? What is a why one day this pain will be useful to you is an amazing character and a beautifully written book. I would highly recommend that. Let's see, what is another one? I mean, there are ones that everybody knows about, like Wonder. That is an amazing book, but maybe that's even middle grade. I don't know what they consider that. I would say the Golden Compass for sure.”

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  25. “I would say the midnight fox by Betsy's. That's like a middle grade book. Are you talking about like a middle grade book or more like a YA book? But it is a masterpiece that anybody, male or female, adult or child, it is just a perfect book. It's funny, it's thoughtful, it's got great characters. Great book”

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  26. “It kind of depends. Sometimes, you know, and some of these books are so short, you can practically read the whole thing. You know, if you've read it before, if you've read it 40 times before, you can whip through that thing pretty fast. It depends. You know, sometimes I'll just reread my couple of favorite parts that are comforting, you know, or if it's a really good book or a book that I haven't read in a long time, I might read the whole thing. Some books are complicated, you know. But I do try to be careful not to read them so often that I wear them out because you can do that with a book and kind of lose the pleasure of it because it's too familiar. I wore out raw dahl early. So I don't reread Rawdahl very much now because I just know his books so well that they kind of don't have any pleasure for me anymore.”

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  27. “Without really, I'm like, oh, I'm reading the dark is rising by Susan Cooper again. I wonder if I'm feeling a little bit stressed out. It's sometimes like my reading choice tells me more about my emotional state than I'm even aware of.”

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  28. “Oh, I get a million go tos, but like, in fact, like Harry Potter, I was like, I have to hold back Harry Potter. Do not let myself reread it, reread it, reread it. I have to hold it for a moment of need. And so when I got the edits back from my editor for my book better than before, it was like, I'm like, and now I'm going to start rereading Harry Potter. I need it now. This is the time because I'm processing all of this stuff. But no, I have like a thousand books. You know, Edward Eager, Elizabeth Enright, I mean, Philip Pullman, I mean, I got a million. I got a huge library full, but I love rereading. I love rereading adult books too. I reread adult books all the time. But there's something very comforting about children's books, particularly CS Lewis. I mean, how many times have I read the line in which the wardrobe? I mean, easily could be 40, could be more. But yeah, because it's just like, oh, I'm like, oh, yeah, I need, and in fact, it's almost a 10.”

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  29. “Not how relationships work. Relationships really thrive on really being in touch with people. And also nobody ever responds to update. So there's no guilt. There's no like, oh, now I have to craft a witty response or like now I have to do one too. It's just like you just put it out there and usually nobody even responds. Because it's like, let's keep this easy so we can do it. You know, I think sometimes people want to have like, let's start some beautiful thing where we like right hand written letters on parchment and mail it to each other. You know, like, no, I'm not going to do that. So that's something that's interesting because it worked really well for us and we thought it was sort of our idiosyncratic family. But like over time, like that's the thing where people are like, tell me again, what was that thing with update? Because I want to do that. That's something that really did. Love it. Yeah.”

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  30. “Getting my hair colored later today, or I'll be like, Eleanor's really annoyed because Barnaby tracks snow all over her bed. You know, it's this like the most mundane thing things are like, oh, I'm leaving tomorrow for London. It should be really fun. I'm seeing my friend Delia. Do you remember her? She was my roommate after college. And there's no, it's okay to be boring. That is the motto of update. But what we find is that it dramatically increases our feeling of connection with each other. Because when you know that mundane stuff, and then also it's good if there's like kids because my parents can say, oh, I heard that you had a Halloween party at school. Or like they know what's going on in a much more kind of day-to-day way. And so many people have said, and some people do this as like a group text. I like that. That's cool. People have set up private groups on Facebook. People do it all different ways, but the idea is it's better to have frequent, boring, mundane communications than to save it up for like when there's something big to report because that's”

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  31. “Responses Well, this 18 I'm just going blank. There's just so many. You don't one thing, though, we didn't do it as a try this at home, but it's something that we keep hearing about over and over and over again. It's something that really people respond to. It's to Elizabeth and I were sisters and our parents live in Kansas City. And my mother made this suggestion. She was like, you know, you know how it is and everybody has remarked on this, that like if you see somebody every day, you have tons to talk about with them. But if you see people like once every six months, it's like, how are you? Fine. How are you? Like it's hard to make conversation. So my mother said, let's just email each other with just like the boring details of everyday life. And we instantly realized that this was a genius idea. And so in our family, my nuclear, you know, my sister and my parents, the four of us, we will send these periodic updates, like say maybe every four or five days that just says update. That's the title. And it's just like the most boring thing. It's like my mother will be like, I'm.”

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  32. “Yeah, so there's all sorts of crazy color history thing. What I'm going to do with this, I don't know. But yeah, so that Japanese, it's a very different way of perceiving color. I'll give you a...”

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  33. “In Russia they have a word just like we have a word for light red is pink and we don't really say things are light red we would call it pink they have a word like that for light blue they have a whole separate word for it and it's interesting and it actually when you look at the brain function of people who speak Russian and their color identification it's different because when you have a distinction like that built into your language it does change the way the speed particularly with which you could perceive these things so it is it's very like and I just was reading today that the word orange like didn't exist until literally oranges came into the marketplace in Europe because they just said they just said yellow red they didn't have like a special word for it because they're just i guess there just wasn't enough need for it and then when the oranges came they were like oh we're gonna have and that's why it's called orange because it's literally from orange is because that's when they began to identify the color”

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  34. “Only recently. That's a very recent introduction into their vocabulary. That's part of why. I don't know when. It came in recently.”

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  35. “Black, white, in a particular blue, in a particular red that's like their core color, which is not, yeah, it's a different approach.”

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  36. “Super weird. But sometimes you read something and you're just not in the same place to, like, I bet now I would read it with a whole different eye. So I'm so glad that you mentioned it because I will be checking it out of the library tomorrow. I'm going to the library tomorrow. And yes, I know exactly where it is because I checked it out before. I know they have a copy. So that's great. Yeah. Japanese are interesting because they have four basic colors.”

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  37. “I'm so glad that you mentioned it because I read it and remembered thinking. There's a lot about that book that is very deeply weird, but I wasn't obsessed with color at the time, so I didn't read it through the lens of color. And so now I want to go back and reread it because it is a very, it's a controversial book in many ways.”

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  38. “Interesting, that is historically the color of dragons. I would always say red, but this is like what color are unicorns. They can be any color we want because they don't really exist. But it's interesting, like, I'm like, to me, it's like. Of course they're red. Like, I'm like, I didn't even know that was a question that anybody would have. Do you believe in, like, how can a color be achromatic? Black, white, and gray are considered achromatic colors. They're non-color colors. How can you have a non-color color? Is black a color? I say yes, black is a color. But a lot of people say no. So, anyway.”

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  39. “Could a painting include a light yellow that's lighter than a dark white? Can light yellow bellow be lighter than dark white”

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  40. “Signature. Sorry. Got it. Got it. Yeah. Not a sinister color. But I thought this was sort of a fun, playful thing. And again, it's a way to tap into the power of the moment and your environment. But we got so many impassioned, delighted responses from people and also like so many pictures. And I mean, there were crazy stories like a woman who said that her mother had really been into the color red and also kind of the southwest look that when she died, they got a red southwest designed urn for her ashes. I mean, these are people really taking it all the way. And it just got me thinking about color. And, you know, as I said before, I'm not a...”

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  41. “Color, how did this come about? I have, oh, so the way it came about was so on the Happier Podcast, Alyssa and I, we always have a try this at home, which is like a small concrete thing that you can do in your everyday life to make yourself happier. And so we tried this at home one week was to pick a signature color. And ironically, neither Elizabeth nor I has ever been able to pick a signature color, but we put it out there anyway.”

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  42. “I guess I like this sort of escape from logic or like the way they're usually like the perfection of the idea or like the elusiveness of it. Like right now one of my weird obsessions that I'm into is color. I'm like really, really obsessed with color. And I have a ton of color coins that are coins that are only about color. Oh, here's one that somebody actually said to me in real life. Wait, what was it? Okay, she said, I walked into a store and I said, I want to buy this blue chair. And the clerk said, oh, everybody says it's blue, but that chair is actually brown. Is the chair blue or brown? Right. What color do you use to paint an object that's transparent?”

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  43. “Yes, yes. Oh, well, that's very much like one of my favorite cons, which is Samuel Johnson quoting a Spanish proverb that said, he who would find the wealth of the Indies must bring the wealth of the Indies with him. Same idea. That's very powerful.”

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  44. “One is from Robert Lewis Stevenson. There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy, which I think is great. And then there's one from Thomas Merton, and I'm not sure I'm going to get it 100% accurate, but he said essentially I am finally coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.”

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  45. “Well, I think of everything that I have ever written, if it was going to be a quote for me, of everything that I have ever written, there's clearly one sentence that is the sentence that is the most meaningful to people. And that is the days are long, but the years are short. That is, I feel like for many people, that is like the most helpful. That's like the thing that's quoted back to me the most is. And it's just like this idea that, you know, sometimes getting from morning to night feels interminable, but then you're like, where did 2017 go? Like, do I even remember March 2017? Like, what even happened? Like, it just flashed by. So to remember that, to remember that.”

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  46. “You know, it's public. If anybody wants it, just email me and I'll send you my podcasting manifesto. I love a manifesto. I have a habits manifesto. Happiness manifesto. I love these frameworks. I like distilling things. It's like for me, that's like so much. It's like some people like to write haiku.”

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  47. “A manifesto, I feel like a manifesto has to be one page. Yeah, it's like a resume. Yeah, you gotta, part of it is to keep it succinct. Yeah, no, it's like 15 one-liners.”

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  48. “By email or voicemail. And then we had a meetup. We've only had one meetup, it was really great, but it was like, it's a thing to pull that off, like where do you do it? How do you organize it? How do you get people to RSVP? So we need to work on that. We've done a couple live events. Those are super fun. We want to do more of those because we do feel like that's like the great community thing because there's like everybody's there together. And my sister has another podcast of her own and they have a very fat active Facebook group Happier in Hollywood. We have not done that with Happier, but I know that that's something that can be really, really effective too. But again, it's like everybody would have a different answer for like depending on what they're interested in, what they're good at, what their audience is interested in, what their content is. But it's a good question, which is...”

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  49. “People would send in their favorites, and then I made a PDF, and then it's just something that people can ask for. Like, do you want the readings for funerals? And when you need that, it's like, it's really helpful to get like a 20-page document. And it's from everybody. Or like we did a thing on Spotify about, you know, how like when you're feeling blue?”

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  50. “Well, one thing that we do a lot of is we have tons of listener content. So like for the holidays, for instance, we were like, okay, send us your best holiday hack, some like some quick, easy thing to make the holidays easier, whether that's about entertaining or your Christmas card list or buying gifts or dealing with your difficult relatives or like traveling, whatever it is. And then we would go through and have like, oh, here's all these things from our community. Or like I did this thing, which worked out really well where someone had emailed to ask if I had any, because I love quotations so much. I have like a quotation newsletter where I send out a quotation every day, a happiness quotation. Said, do you have any good ideas for funeral readings or memorial readings? Because I have to go to a funeral and I need readings. And I was like, this is a great question for everyone. And so it was like a whole community project.”

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