Gretchen Rubin: People live in different sensory world. We can shape those to some extent, but also have empathy for other people who maybe are feeling discomfort. For some people visually, like they want things to be very orderly. And then there are people like me who need a lot of silence. Sometimes it takes a little experimenting.
Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin was warned that her eyesight was in peril. It shocked her into realising she'd taken all of her five senses for granted - and so she resolved to wring every ounce of joy from the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures around her.
Concluding her conversation with Dr Laurie Santos, Gretchen explains how to be more alive to smell, taste and touch - building on the ideas in her new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World.
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