Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives

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Here's what you need to know about this book: I forgot that I'd read it a year prior and re-read it. I listen to Gretchen's podcast (with her sister) and I really enjoy it and their dynamic. I liked Happier at Home and, more or less, the Four Tendencies can be a helpful construct for understand ...

from nancyewhite

I found two things in this book to be useful in trying to establish new and healthier habits. They are: 1. I am a person who does best with external accountability and validation. Even the reward and goal system of an app works better than attempting to change using sheer will. 2. Put your new ha...

from Karen59

Better than Before is an accessible and easy-to-read book about how to support good habits and break bad ones. Like her previous books, Gretchen Rubin knows how to break down information into readable and simple steps to encourage readers to achieve their goals. I found her framework of the four ...

from howifeelaboutbooks

I picked up this book because I was intrigued at learning how to start new habits. I found the answer, to an extent, but also so much more. The last Rubin book I read only halfway through before skimming, because it was a little too long. This one dragged on in places, but so much new (to me) inf...

from Writermala

What I like about Gretchen Rubin's books is that she writes like she would speak. I find that she addresses even the most complicated Psycho-social concepts in such a simple fashion, and often touched with humor, that I can grasp the idea. I never feel threatened by what she is saying and I feel ...