Podcast Mentions
Better Than Before Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
Gretchen Rubin
NEW YORK TIMES
Podcasts
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Podcast
10% Happier with Dan Harris
The book was highlighted as a New York Times bestseller that explored habit formation through 21 practical strategies, and it was credited with shaping the author's later framework on personality tendencies. Dan Harris repeatedly described it as "utterly fascinating" and noted how its insights about breaking bad habits and establishing new ones were central to happiness and health. The discussion conveyed strong enthusiasm for the title and recommended it to listeners interested in behavior change.
Episode: Gretchen Rubin on: How To Use Your Five Senses To...
This book was mentioned as one of Gretchen Rubin's New York Times bestsellers, focusing on habit formation.
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She's the author of many, many books including New York Times best sellers with names such as Outer Order in her comm, the four tendencies, better than before and her first huge book, The Happiness Project.
Episode: When It Comes to Habits, There Are Four Types of P...
This book followed The Happiness Project and focused on behavior change and habit formation, identifying 21 strategies for making or breaking habits.
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which she then followed up with a book called Better Than Before, which is about behavior change and habit formation.
Yeah absolutely right so in better than before I identified the 21 strategies that we can use to make or break our habits
Episode: Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm
This book was mentioned as one of the utterly fascinating books she wrote about habit change.
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And then she wrote some books about habit change which are utterly fascinating. They're called one is called Better Than Before, the other is called For the Four Tendencies.
Episode: Gretchen Rubin, 'The Four Tendencies'
This book, which came out before 'The Four Tendencies,' focused on how people make and break habits and identified 21 strategies for habit formation.
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after that she wrote a book called Better Than Before.
And I was like that's interesting because I don't feel that problem, that's not a frustration that I face so what do all these people have in common or just hearing how people approached it. I really started to sense these big patterns and that's what turned into the four tendencies
Episode: Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm
This book, which was described as utterly fascinating, discussed habit change and was mentioned alongside another book on the same topic.
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And then she wrote some books about habit change which are utterly fascinating. They're called one is called Better Than Before, the other is called For the Four Tendencies.
Episode: Gretchen Rubin (Our Long-Lost Pilot Episode)
This more recent book, released in 2015, focused on habits, specifically how to break bad ones and establish new ones.
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And then the more recent book which came out I believe in 2015. Yes. You just got better than before and it's about habits and how to break bad ones and establish new ones.
I like that a lot I'm curious about your own personal habit because I had lunch with you not too long ago before your book came out and I knew you were really disciplined about what you eat and you actually mentioned that you have changed the way you eat and I think in part as a consequence from what you learned in doing the book.
And then better than before I described what happened which is the strategy of the lightning bolt which is when you have a new piece of information or you have some experience and all of a sudden your habits changed almost effortlessly because you just have some new belief and so your habits fall in line it's a one when my thoughts about nutrition changed.
Episode: Gretchen Rubin, 'The Four Tendencies'
This book covered how people make and break habits, and the concepts discussed in it led to the framework of the Four Tendencies.
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after that she wrote a book called Better Than Before.
And at that time what we talked about was her then current book called Better Than Before which was all about how we make and break habits which is just so central to our happiness and our health.
This emerged from your last book better than before which was about habit formation.
Episode: Gretchen Rubin (Our Long-Lost Pilot Episode)
This more recent book, which came out in 2015, focuses on habits, specifically how to break bad ones and establish new ones.
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And then the more recent book which came out I believe in 2015. Yes. You just got better than before and it's about habits and how to break bad ones and establish new ones.
I have 21 strategies in better than before that's one of the first and most powerful for most people.
Podcast
The Jordan Harbinger Show
It was mentioned as a previous book by Gretchen Rubin that focused on habit change and how people develop and break habits successfully. It was mentioned during the discussion of her research process for The Four Tendencies.
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When I was researching my book, my previous book called Better Than Before, which is all about habit change, how people make and break habits successfully.
— Episode: 18: Gretchen Rubin | Four Tendencies: Th...
Episode: 18: Gretchen Rubin | Four Tendencies: The Framewor...
It was mentioned as a previous book by Gretchen Rubin that focused on habit change and how people develop and break habits successfully. It was mentioned during the discussion of her research process for The Four Tendencies.
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When I was researching my book, my previous book called Better Than Before, which is all about habit change, how people make and break habits successfully.
Episode: 18: Gretchen Rubin | Four Tendencies: The Framewor...
It was discussed in relation to the research that led to the development of the Four Tendencies. It was mentioned that the book focuses on habit change and how people form and break habits.
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When I was researching my book, my previous book called Better Than Before, which is all about habit change, how people make and break habits successfully.
Episode: 18: Gretchen Rubin | Four Tendencies: The Framewor...
It was mentioned as a previous book by Gretchen Rubin that focused on habit change and how people successfully make and break habits.
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When I was researching my book, my previous book called Better Than Before, which is all about habit change, how people make and break habits successfully.
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