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0:06I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is A Little Happier.
0:09I'm working on my book, Project Empty Nest, about the Empty Nest Transition, a transition that I'm rebranding as the Open Door Transition.
0:17I love quotations, so one of my favorite parts of writing a book is choosing the epigraphs.
0:23For this book, the book as a whole has two quotations as epigraphs, and each chapter has its own individual epigraph as well.
0:31The epigraph for chapter one comes from E.B.
0:34White's essay, The Ring of Time.
0:37He writes, The only sense that is common in the long run is the sense of change, and we all instinctively avoid it and object to the passage of time and would rather have none of it.
0:51Our resistance to change and the value of change is a tension that comes up again and again in my study of happiness.
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