A Little Happier: Don’t Look Before You Take That Bite

Apr 20, 2026 · 3 min · YouTube

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0:39I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is A Little Happier.

0:43I love a teaching story, and my mother loves a good teaching story almost as much as I do.

0:49Recently, she told me one that I'd never heard before.

0:52It's a short but very powerful story.

0:55When I did a little research, I learned that this story is drawn from the Sufi tradition of teaching tales.

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