23 APR 2024 · You’re friends with people whose lives, while different, are on par with yours. You drift out of touch. Decades later and after only a few clicks, you learn they’ve eclipsed you in almost every way. Now what? We tackle that juicy proposition in this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/02/06/thief-of-joy/. Jealousy is “https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jealous,” while envy is “https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/envy.”

16 APR 2024 · If you’re anything like Katie and me you have a low-grade, background anxiety about death. In this edition of Doing What Works we share what helps us in case it helps you. Bonus feature? Never, ever do what Darrell did as a kid. You’ll be sorry! Here are your show notes… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Weintraub said death keeps the rope taut. In https://www.amazon.com/Tuesdays-Morrie-Greatest-Lesson-Anniversary/dp/076790592X, Morrie suggested asking a little bird on your shoulder if today is the day you will die. http://www.barbarasher.com/index.htm said the passage of time drives you crazy when you know you aren’t using it right.   https://www.instagram.com/elizabeth_gilbert_writer/ says you can tell who’s living for others by the anguished look on the faces of the others. It might be helpful when you’re struggling to think, “https://www.instagram.com/danharris/.” https://people.com/tv/how-betty-white-viewed-the-aging-process-and-had-no-fear-of-the-secret-of-death/.

9 APR 2024 · An alarm I carry to scare off dogs didn’t scare a dog that terrorized me recently, but it accidentally kept me safe in a different way. That’s why I was eager to talk about utility in this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… A https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/util is “a hypothetical unit measuring satisfaction.” https://www.instagram.com/nibblesandbits570/ are worth it! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marginal%20utility is “the amount of additional utility provided by an additional unit of an economic good or service.”

2 APR 2024 · How would you know what happiness feels like if you never felt the opposite? We’re happy to give sadness its due in this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… “https://www.tckpublishing.com/the-little-prince-quotes/.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/390233-happiness-is-pretty-simple-someone-to-love-something-to-do.

28 DEC 2020 · You don’t know what’s going to make you happy until you try it. The job or the relationship that looks good on paper may not feel so great at, say, ten o’clock on a Tuesday. That’s one reason to say yes to more things, so you can get a better feel for more things. Saying yes is a habit and a mindset. If you practice saying yes to smaller things with low stakes, you might find yourself more willing to take bigger risks. That’s what we hope to inspire in this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… Irresistible author Adam Alter [http://adamalterauthor.com/] was one of Katie’s professors at NYU Stern and “say yes” was his advice. “I wish I might go back and do the little things you asked me to” is from a poem by Alice E. Chase [https://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/860.html] entitled “To My Grown-Up Son.” Saying “yes” (and “yes, and”) is a rule of improv [https://medium.com/the-improv-blog/the-first-rule-of-improv-is-yes-and-30e5954240d6]. “If you can’t imagine any other explanation for a set of facts, it might be because you are bad at imagining things.” That’s from Dilbert creator Scott Adams [https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays]. “Marriage is a big bet. It’s the only bet of its kind, one in which you say, ‘This feels right; I think I’ll change everything.’” That’s from Jerry Seinfeld [https://www.today.com/popculture/seinfeld-turns-25-read-jerrys-best-real-life-lines-1D79884423].