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Gretchen Rubin



Gretchen Rubin is an American author, podcaster, and public speaker. Rubin’s work focuses on finding and increasing happiness through habits and habit change.

Gretchen Rubin
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Habits: The Strategy of the Four Tendencies

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Better than Before

Habits are the invisible architecture of our lives. Rubin provides an analytical and scientific framework from which to understand these habits—as well as change them for good.

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Gretchen Rubin: The 4 Ways to Successfully Adopt New Habits

When someone (even yourself) gives you a rule to follow what do you do? Are you a Rebel, refusing to follow all directives? Or are you more of an Obliger who will respond to outer rules, but so much to inner rules? In this 99U talk, bestselling author Gretchen Rubin shares the four personality...

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It’s more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted.

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The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

What if you could change your life without really changing your life? On the outside, Gretchen Rubin had it all—a good marriage, healthy children and a successful career—but she knew something was missing.

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5 Tips to Make Healthy Habits Stick

Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin counts on these "fundamental habits" to help promote bigger changes.

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8 Tips for Dealing with Difficult Relatives

Holidays can be tough. Some people love them; some people dread them.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe days are long, but the years are short.

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Gretchen Rubin on the Greatest Challenge to Living a Happy Life | SuperSoul Sunday | OWN

Gretchen Rubin had the kind of life that could very well make others jealous. She was married to the love of her life and raising two daughters. She lived and worked in New York, her favorite city.

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Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

In the context of a happy life, a messy desk or a crowded wardrobe is a trivial problem—yet Gretchen Rubin found that getting control of our stuff makes us feel more in control of our lives.

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