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Jun 2021
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Little Happier: Why Is It So Hard to See...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
About this episode

Despite all good intentions, an accomplished architect built a house with lousy acoustics, even though the owner—the writer Ved Mehta, who was blind--emphasized that the acoustical environment was the most important aspect of the house. It takes constant discipline to remember that what other people value, and what other people seek, may be very different from what we value and what we seek. 

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