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Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Little Happier: When Your Life Feels Like “Groundhog Day”: Movies That Capture Concepts
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Gretchen Rubin
Gretch, you and I both love Whole Foods Market, and as the weather gets warmer, we want to have some lighter meals. Well, Whole Foods Market has what you're looking for with great everyday prices. At Whole Foods Market, you can save every day. Look for the yellow low price signs that help you save money without compromising the quality you expect from Whole Foods Market. Find them with their responsibly farmed Atlantic salmon, no antibiotics ever, ground beef, and boneless skinless chicken breasts, plus more throughout the store. Yellow really means savings at Whole Food Market because their sale signs are also yellow. So basically, whenever you see yellow, you know you're saving money. Save on the best of spring with great everyday prices at Whole Foods Market. Lemonade I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier recently, on an episode of More Happier, my sister Elizabeth and I talked about a question I'd been pondering just for the fun of it. What are specific movies that stand for entire concepts? We were trying to think of as many movies as possible where we can invoke a whole concept or situation just by saying the name of the movie. For instance, if I said, gosh, I really want to find a different job, it's Groundhog Day around here, you'd know what I meant. Or if I said, gosh, I really want to find a different job, it's the Devil Wears Prada around here, you'd know that I meant something quite different. I find it extremely entertaining to think about this question. Last year, one item on my 24 for 24 list was to make a list of 24 things that please me. I enjoyed this exercise so much that I'm doing it again for 2025. In fact, if I make a list like this for the next few years, as I expect I will, I'm thinking that I might make a little book out of it. I was trying to give a name to whatever it is that pleases me so much about this exercise. And I think, though I'm still not sure, that it's the pleasure of examples. It's so satisfying when someone offers up an interesting idea and then provides many apt or surprising examples. Now that I've started thinking about the pleasure of examples, I've realized that I do indeed have a deep love of examples, and I spend much of my creativity of time thinking of interesting, fitting examples for points I'm trying to make. If you share this love of examples, here is my ongoing list of examples of movies that stand for concepts. Elizabeth and I thought of some of these. Others have been suggested by listeners Here you go. The Truman Show, Sliding Doors, Gaslight, the Matrix, Groundhog Day, Citizen Kane, When Harry Met Sally, Her Sophie's Choice, Catch 22, Freaky Friday, Fatal Attraction, Zellig Being There, the Devil Wears Prada, Office Space, the Perfect Storm, It's a Wonderful Life, Single White Female, Brazil, the Manchurian Candidate. Oh, and I just thought of one as I was reading that list. Wag the Dog. If you think of any additions, email me@podcastretchenrubin.com I love examples. I'm Gretchen Rubin, and I hope this makes your week a little happier from the Onward Project.