Top 10 Practices for Resetting Your Time, Space, Body, Inner Critic, and Social Life | Laurie Santos and Gretchen Rubin
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Top 10 Practices for Resetting Your Time, Space, Body, Inner Critic, and Social Life | Laurie Santos and Gretchen Rubin

B1IntermediateSeptember 9, 20261 hr 2 min
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  • Relationships & psychology

How to understand your tendencies and identify what's keeping you stuck. Plus: advice on treating resistance as data, reclaiming time affluence, and avoiding "procrasticlearing." Laurie Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University. In addition to her work on the evolutionary origins of human cognition, Laurie is an expert on the science of happiness and the ways in which our minds lie to us about what makes us happy. Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, is a top-3 Apple podcast which has attracted 150+ million downloads since its launch. Gretchen Rubin is...

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Hey everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Today we're going to talk about smart strategies for when you're stuck, drifting, doubting yourself. I think for most of us, it's quite common to enter periods of time where we feel this way, even just in the middle of a normal day or sometimes, unfortunately, for longer periods during our

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I will say that the timing for this interview for me is perfect because I'm experiencing some pretty pronounced creative and professional Stuckness that maybe we'll talk about a little bit But anyway with my guests today

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We're gonna talk about how to figure out what is keeping you stuck how to talk to yourself in these situations and how to get out Of them. I have two guests today people I happen to love Gretchen Rubin is host of the happier podcast and the author of multiple best sellers, including the happiness project life and five senses and her latest secrets of adulthood. And Dr.

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