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    Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives

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    New York Times Bestseller
    Washington Post Bestseller
     
    The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change? 
     
    Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives.
     
    So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is: How do we change our habits?
     
    Better than Before answers that question. It presents a practical, concrete framework to allow readers to understand their habits-and to change them for good. Infused with Rubin's compelling voice, rigorous research, and easy humor, and packed with vivid stories of lives transformed, Better than Before explains the (sometimes counter-intuitive) core principles of habit formation.
     
    Along the way, Rubin uses herself as guinea pig, tests her theories on family and friends, and answers readers' most pressing questions-oddly, questions that other writers and researchers tend to ignore: 

    • Why do I find it tough to create a habit for something I love to do?
    • Sometimes I can change a habit overnight, and sometimes I can't change a habit, no matter how hard I try. Why?
    • How quickly can I change a habit?
    • What can I do to make sure I stick to a new habit?
    • How can I help someone else change a habit?
    • Why can I keep habits that benefit others, but can't make habits that are just for me?

    Whether readers want to get more sleep, stop checking their devices, maintain a healthy weight, or finish an important project, habits make change possible. Reading just a few chapters of Better Than Before will make readers eager to start work on their own habits-even before they've finished the book.

    Bonus Feature: Includes a full episode from the author's podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin in which she discusses how to build happier habits into everyday life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 17, 2015
    ISBN9780553551716
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    • 5/5
      I couldn’t stop listening. The stories are engaging and I wanted to hear it all!
    • 5/5
      Loved it! So much useful tips. I will defenetly use these tips.
    • 4/5
      lots of interesting ideas and advice about habits and life
    • 5/5
      Very insightful information! No other book on the subject talked about habit types that ive read.
    • 5/5
      I was so intrigued by the references to the 4 tendencies and the concept of framing your communication - internal and external - based on personality type to improve success with habits. Great read!
    • 5/5
      revealing!!
    • 5/5
      Better than “The power of habit”. Insights were so very useful for me changing some habits I neeeded to.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      How she gives the roadmap to better version of ourselves, she sets out the challenges and shortcuts. Enjoyed it. Be Gretchen everyone.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Listened to the audio book...I loved it.. I loved her practical research and understanding for small yet complicated everyday issues we face. Gretchen's writing brought much better clarity to the many simple tasks I complicate myself with. I aim to keep it as a reference book and come back to it when I lose track again.

      Thank you, Gretchen.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Not bad，Not a big fan of the framework but has a lot of good points and makes you think a lot.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Perfect starting for me in changing my habits, my transformation to become a better person is possible

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Its not a one size fits all approach and I love that, you will find what works for you and what docent and finally have the guilt removed because you won't feel like your schedules and regimens don't look like other peoples.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Oh, I like your books, Gretchen, but PLEASE let someone else record them...

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      When the body of a young British woman is discovered in a mass grave in a Croatian village, her mother hires former MI5 private investigator Bill Penn to find out what led to her daughter's death. Through his investigation, Penn learns that the young woman was a victim of a war crime. The book was fairly interesting up to that point. Everything past that point was unbelievably stupid. Penn put himself in danger of his own making. There was nothing urgent about the situation. Penn wasn't racing against the clock to prevent something terrible from happening. The crime had already been committed. There wasn't a single likeable character in the book, except perhaps the headmaster of the school in the Serbian village. I'm sure there are better books, probably non-fiction, about the war in Croatia, the plight of the refugees, and war crimes and criminals.