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Gretchen Rubin wrote this book after an eye doctor visit made her realize she was taking her five senses for granted. The book details her exploration of each sense to achieve deeper engagement with the physical world and improve her life quality.
Anyway, the book is called Life in Five Senses. How exploring the senses got me out of my head and into the world.
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Gretchen Rubin wrote this book after an eye doctor visit made her realize she was taking her five senses for granted. The book details her exploration of each sense to achieve deeper engagement with the physical world and improve her life quality.
Anyway, the book is called Life in Five Senses. How exploring the senses got me out of my head and into the world.
And I realized that I'd been feeling that for a while that something was missing and that realization and that walk home made me realize that what was missing was just this intense engagement with my five senses. And so that's what led me to want to write the book.
It has really changed the quality of my life I mean I have been studying happiness for more than a decade so I have dozens and dozens of happiness project resolutions that I follow but I realized that something was missing and this really was what was missing was the sense of like deep engagement with just the physical world and like the elevation of the ordinary experience and so now I feel like I just am so much more tapped into the world and other people and myself because I'm just so much more aware of the particularities of it.
Yes well it's one of the things that's fascinating about the Met is all of the artifacts meant to help people touch the transcendence so there's so many shrines and icons and reliquaries with relics of saints you know because people want to touch these things and they want to bring something home with them and there's just a very physical element to wanting to engage with the transcendent but having a physical representation of it really helps us feel like we're in touch with that.
Oh yes so the book is called life in five senses have exploring this senses got me out of my head and into the world I've written other books happiness project which is all about happiness better than before which is all about habit formation the foretendencies which is about a personality framework that I discovered and I have a podcast called happier with Gretchen Rubin where my sister Alyssa Kraft who's a Hollywood showrunner and I talk about how to be happier healthier more productive more creative each week I have a website Gretchen Rubin.com where all these materials are gathered and I have all kinds of free resources and articles and I'm all over social media at Gretchen Rubin and I have to say I love hearing from people I love insights observations questions resources so hit me up in all the places we can all learn from each other.
