Walking Around the Met with The Happiness Project’s Gretchen Rubin Every Single Day

Episode 136

17th September 2025

That’s how often the happiness expert Gretchen Rubin goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Every day. Except Wednesdays because they’re closed on Wednesdays. Gretchen is the author of The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, The Four Tendencies, and Life in Five Senses and she hosts the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast. We hope this conversation with Gretchen about her art perusing habit will make you happy, seems like if Gretchen does it then it must, but we’re fairly certain it will make you sleepy. Learn where at the Met they have a little waterfall and koi fish. Find out how to play Met Roulette. And learn where in the vast museum there is a very, very comfy couch that would be ideal for napping if the docents wouldn’t get upset. And hey, it’s your imagination, so make it so they tuck you in. What could be classier than a nap at the dang Met?

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That’s how often the happiness expert Gretchen Rubin goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Every day. Except Wednesdays because they’re closed on Wednesdays. Gretchen is the author of The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the MorningThe Four Tendencies, and Life in Five Senses and she hosts the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast. We hope this conversation with Gretchen about her art perusing habit will make you happy, seems like if Gretchen does it then it must, but we’re fairly certain it will make you sleepy. Learn where at the Met they have a little waterfall and koi fish. Find out how to play Met Roulette. And learn where in the vast museum there is a very, very comfy couch that would be ideal for napping if the docents wouldn’t get upset. And hey, it’s your imagination, so make it so they tuck you in. What could be classier than a nap at the dang Met?

Learn more about The Happiness Project, the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast, and Gretchen’s other books and projects by visiting her website, www.GretchenRubin.com.

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Getting to sleep can be difficult sometimes. Now you can achieve that urgently needed rest by taking advantage of our most precious natural resource: celebrities. Each week on the slyly humorous and reassuring Sleeping With Celebrities, host John Moe talks with a different guest from the world of entertainment about something they know a lot about. The conversation is guaranteed to be just interesting enough to draw your attention away from your own swirling anxieties but never interesting enough to keep you awake. No startling revelations, no dramatic screaming confrontations, but plenty of low-key dialogue, intricately laced deadpan comedy, and a ticket to dreamland.

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