A Little Happier: The Effort Doesn’t Get Easier, But You Get Stronger.

Mar 30, 2026 · 4 min

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

0:42An idiosyncratic thing about my family is that we all do high-intensity weight training.

0:50I was the first to try it, and then my mother-in-law started, then my husband Jamie, my sister Elizabeth, my parents, and my father-in-law.

0:59We've all been doing it for well more than a decade very consistently.

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