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Choose the Bigger Life with Gretchen Rubin

1h 0m · Dear Chelsea · 21 Mar 07:01

Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin joins Chelsea to talk about the impact of both novelty and repetition on the human brain, what she learned by visiting the Met on a daily basis, and how using your five senses can help improve mindfulness… and your life. Then: An ex-mormon flirts with psychedelics. A teacher considers trading in her life for a new one. And a small-town girl wonders if her May-December relationship has been a fetish all along.

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