Little Happier: A Skyscraper Crisis Holds a Valuable (and True) Lesson

About this episode

The episode discusses a crisis involving the Citicorp Center's design and the lessons it teaches about creativity and reevaluation.

A crisis involving the design of the 59-story Citicorp Center illustrates lessons in creativity and the value of constant reevaluation. Get in touch: ⁠⁠⁠podcast@gretchenrubin.com⁠⁠⁠ Visit⁠⁠⁠ Gretchen's website⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Gretchen Rubin

Topics covered

• creativity
• design crisis
• constant reevaluation
• life lessons
• architecture

Keywords

• Citicorp Center
• creativity
• design
• architecture
• life lessons
• evaluation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Citicorp Center

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