Gretchen Rubin On The Power Of Exploring Your Senses

<p>Ryan speaks with Gretchen Rubin about her new book <a href="https://geni.us/D9Dc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World</em></a>, 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.</p><p>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 <a href="https://geni.us/N1k5kbe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Better Than Before</em></a>, <a href="https://geni.us/lc8Kn6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Happier at Home</em></a>, and <a href="https://geni.us/q7cp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Happiness Project</em></a>, and her writings have sold more than two million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages. Gretchen’s podcast, <a href="https://gretchenrubin.com/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Happier with Gretchen Rubin</em></a>, 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: <a href="https://gretchenrubin.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">gretchenrubin.com</a>.</p><p>✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.co