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Gretchen Rubin

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

That's the structure is always the hardest part.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

That's the structure is always the hardest part.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

That's the structure is always the hardest part.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

They and I have the same agent, which is like being from the same hometown.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

They and I have the same agent, which is like being from the same hometown.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

They and I have the same agent, which is like being from the same hometown.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

It's very annoying that they do that. I'm like, that doesn't make any sense. But to the point, a book whose format I've always admired is a book called Why Don't Students Like School? And that's the question. Why don't students like school? And then the chapters are different questions within that.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

It's very annoying that they do that. I'm like, that doesn't make any sense. But to the point, a book whose format I've always admired is a book called Why Don't Students Like School? And that's the question. Why don't students like school? And then the chapters are different questions within that.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

It's very annoying that they do that. I'm like, that doesn't make any sense. But to the point, a book whose format I've always admired is a book called Why Don't Students Like School? And that's the question. Why don't students like school? And then the chapters are different questions within that.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

And I thought that was such a brilliant way to structure it, because it immediately arouses your curiosity, and it's a great organizing principle. So I think that's really, really good advice. Follow the questions. My other one is skip the boring parts. You can do that. As a writer, it's so exciting.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

And I thought that was such a brilliant way to structure it, because it immediately arouses your curiosity, and it's a great organizing principle. So I think that's really, really good advice. Follow the questions. My other one is skip the boring parts. You can do that. As a writer, it's so exciting.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

And I thought that was such a brilliant way to structure it, because it immediately arouses your curiosity, and it's a great organizing principle. So I think that's really, really good advice. Follow the questions. My other one is skip the boring parts. You can do that. As a writer, it's so exciting.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

Probably all this stuff about love, probably love. That's a hard one, yeah. When also, you know, in order to write it, I had to like think it, you know, and that's hard too. It's hard to have a thought. Yeah, but I think those were the ones, thinking back, those are the ones that I struggled with the most.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

Probably all this stuff about love, probably love. That's a hard one, yeah. When also, you know, in order to write it, I had to like think it, you know, and that's hard too. It's hard to have a thought. Yeah, but I think those were the ones, thinking back, those are the ones that I struggled with the most.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

Probably all this stuff about love, probably love. That's a hard one, yeah. When also, you know, in order to write it, I had to like think it, you know, and that's hard too. It's hard to have a thought. Yeah, but I think those were the ones, thinking back, those are the ones that I struggled with the most.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

Yes, any travel expenses, yep.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

Yes, any travel expenses, yep.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

Yes, any travel expenses, yep.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

Yeah, so by way of background, a lot of times people will say, oh, because my sister and I have this podcast together, like, oh, you two are so close. Like, was there anything that your parents did to help you to stay close? And so what my parents did is they would always pay any time when we were young adults for us to go see each other. So if Elizabeth was taking the train,

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Gretchen Rubin on the Secrets of Adulthood and Happiness | EP 604

Yeah, so by way of background, a lot of times people will say, oh, because my sister and I have this podcast together, like, oh, you two are so close. Like, was there anything that your parents did to help you to stay close? And so what my parents did is they would always pay any time when we were young adults for us to go see each other. So if Elizabeth was taking the train,