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- Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
- Narrated by: Gretchen Rubin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Publisher's summary
The author of the blockbuster New York Times best sellers 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 listeners 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 counterintuitive) core principles of habit formation.
Along the way Rubin uses herself as guinea pig, tests her theories on family and friends, and answers listeners' 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 listeners want to get more sleep, stop checking their devices, maintain a healthy weight, or finish an important project, habits make change possible. Listening to just a few chapters of Better Than Before will make listeners eager to start work on their own habits - even before they've finished the audiobook.
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.
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Finally, in the first productivity book by a woman in a decade, Erin Falconer will show you how to do less - a lot less. In fact, How to Get Sh*t Done will teach you how to zero in on the three areas of your life where you want to excel, and then it will show you how to offload, outsource, or just stop giving a damn about the rest. In How to Get Sh*t Done she shows how even the most perfectionistic among us can tap in to our inner free spirit and learn to feel like badasses rather than drudges.
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Say you want to start going to the gym or practicing a musical instrument. How long should it take before you stop having to force it and start doing it automatically? The surprising answers are found in Making Habits, Breaking Habits, a leading psychologist’s popular examination of one of the most powerful and underappreciated processes in the brain. Although people like to think that they are in control, the vast majority of human behavior occurs without any decision-making or conscious thought.
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Get the actual book
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Narration ruined it
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An insightful guide that shows how habits of behavior are formed, and how we can transform bad habits into positive behaviors in ourselves and others. Smart Change explores the psychological mechanisms that form and maintain habits in individuals and groups and offers real, accessible and actionable advice for changing habits. In an engaging narrative, Markman covers a wide range of habits, from individual behaviors like eating better and exercising regularly to work-related behaviors such as learning effectively and influencing customers’ purchases.
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Even Smarter Than I Thought!!!
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Right now, over 100 million Americans secretly feel frustrated and bored with their lives. If you've come to regard yourself as your own worst enemy; if you constantly daydream and wonder, "Is this all there is?"; if you have a tendency, when asked how you're doing, to just say "Fine," you may be one of them. If this sounds familiar, there's clearly something missing from your life. This book will help you discover what it is, and how to win it back.
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STOP and buy The Five Second Rule instead.
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Healthy Habits Suck
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With this funny, in-your-face guide, you won’t find advice on how to “enjoy” exercise, or tips for making broccoli and kale taste as good as donuts and ice cream. What you will find are solid skills to help you actually do the healthy things you know you should be doing. Using these skills - based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and neuroscience - you’ll learn to find the motivation you’re craving to adopt healthy habits, even if they do suck. You’ll also discover how to accept self-criticism, develop self-compassion, and live a more meaningful life.
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Ok
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East listening, highly motivational
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Change comes most readily when you understand what's standing between you and success and tailor your solution to that roadblock. If you want to work out more but find exercise difficult and boring, downloading a goal-setting app probably won't help. But what if, instead, you transformed your workouts so they became a source of pleasure instead of a chore? Turning an uphill battle into a downhill one is the key to success.
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very practical
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Not what I expected
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What disappointed you about Better Than Before?
The title is very misleading! Instead, this is a personal story of her low carb diet, her sister, her husband, her dad ..... I was expecting some practical and useful direction, instead I now feel like I know everything about HER life and her immediate family! I was under the assumption (from the title) that this book would deliver something MUCH different! Ugh!!
Would you ever listen to anything by Gretchen Rubin again?
This was my first ... it will be a high hill to climb to make me want to purchase anything from her.
What didn’t you like about Gretchen Rubin’s performance?
Lack of direction for the people buying the book and personally ... didn't like her preaching about a low carb diet. May work for some, but any diet that restricts fruits and vegetables raises a red flag with me!
What character would you cut from Better Than Before?
All of them!
Any additional comments?
Buy " The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business ", by Charles Duhigg. THIS book is helpful and what one expects to learn about habits!!
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- 10-15-19
Other Habit Books are Way Better!
I am engulfed in habit research right now. One book after another like, Atomic Habits has literally made my life better by helping me add and break habits. I found that Gretchen's approach felt rude and boastful. She seems to have the best side of every description and regardless if she meant to or not the reader of the other types feels put down. She doesn't seem to struggle with many basic habit issues which is great for her but makes her very hard to relate to. This is the first review I have ever written. I felt so disheartened about her (what felt like) judgments of me and her gloating about herself I wanted to save you from experiencing the same negative feelings.
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- George
- 06-25-15
At first I didn't like it.
The author is a good reader and writer and is self deprecating in an endearing way. However she invents these 4 constructs/categories of people called obligers, upholders, rebels, and questioners. These are a theme throughout the book, but I want to yell at her she can't just make up categories based on anecdotal information and without a lot of data. She is smart enough to know this, but apparently she doesn't care. The book is great despite this. It is great because you get a window into the way an organized mind works. I sort of think it is unintentionally great (my apologies to the author). For example anybody that would make up these categories and start putting people into them has a certain way of thinking that may be a hint to staying organized (compartmentalizing a lot of things, if it works for you go with it). The content itself is also very good. She has great insights into how important it is to not let others dictate ones own likes and dislikes. She has great insight into adulthood, which I get the feeling might be her next book. It can be annoying to listen to one with an obviously high level of executive functioning tell people with likely less levels of executive functioning what to do, but you'll get over it, because the book is very helpful, and very well written and read.
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- Jennifer S. Leblanc
- 03-28-15
Help for a rebel!
Gretchen breaks down habit forming into 4 personality types. I've read dozens of books on habit and will power and this one contained some real ah-ha moments. I am a Rebel. I do what I want to and resist against expectations (even my own).
As an Upholder, Gretchen is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum and so I think us Rebels must be the hardest group for her to relate to and provide advice. Even though the book addressed Rebels less than the more common types, the information was useful and I gained a better understanding of why so many techniques were not working for me. I am looking forward to making some new habits that will set my life on autopilot and give me more energy to devote to creative pursuits. The book was informative and written with a show not tell style that will make it enjoyable for almost anyone. Loved it!
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- Debra
- 04-02-15
Loved this book!
I approached the new year realizing that if I wanted to have time for some things, I had to give up time on others. I realized I needed new habits- not just new habits but a plan for creating them and sticking with them. Gretchen has a plan snd as always her simple yet wise words can be a help to many!
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- Troy
- 05-07-15
Works on Absolutes, but Worthy Ideas
This is a good little book about habits. I found it interesting, but her categories are so absolute that I found my own tendencies bouncing between the presented extremes quite a bit. I suspect it's like that for many people. Application of her ideas in my own life will require some amalgamation of contradictory suggestions. Even so, the ideas presented here are worthy of consideration.
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- Amy
- 03-28-15
Life changing
Game changer even for someone who has had relative habit success in the past. Loved that the narrator was the author herself.
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- Athena Keehu
- 03-28-15
Fantastic!
loved this book! It was easy to follow along with like listening to my best friend talk story with me. started implementing the suggestions she makes in the book & have had huge success with my new habits!
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- Meagan
- 12-17-16
I improved my habits immediately!
I loved this book. It was exactly what I was looking for and I was able to use Gretchin's insight to immediately improve my habits. She has collected all (or a lot!) of habit-relevant information and sorts it in a way that allows the reader to gain a new perspective on how meaningful and important it is to understand what type of person they are and their intentions and actions to make long lasting habits. Actually the information is straightforward and most of which we already know (for example, consistency is important for habits) but she goes into detail and gives examples that emphasize how and why different things are important. It gave me the insight and motivation to feel like I could create any habit that I wanted to and I've been able to implement a lot of her advice.
One thing to note is that this is the type of book that would be useful to have in hard copy so you can flip back to each chapter and reflect on what she said, so I had to take notes during one of the key chapters which means I couldn't be keeping busy while listening to the book. I will likely go buy the book to have in my library.
I'm giving this book 4 stars because although I found it very helpful, the framework about personality types that Gretchin presents didn't fit well for me personally. I don't fall into any one of her categories, and she uses these categories as the foundation for the rest of the book. I still learned a great deal and am very happy with this purchase !
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- Andrew
- 09-08-15
Disapppointing
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I really wanted to like this book but I could not even finish it. It was just the ramblings of a neurotic, over-achiever trying to understand why she acts the way she does. I think she just needed a topic to write about and picked a self help topic/title to entice people to buy her book even though she does not have anything unique to say or add to what has already been written about habits and human behavior. She asks more questions in the book about herself than she can answer. And what answers she does provide are just generalizations and speculation based on her experience and the few other authors she quotes. I grew bored and put it down half way through.
What could Gretchen Rubin have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Write about the law (she mentions several times she is a lawyer), rather than speculate about human behavior of which she has no more knowledge than any other lay person.
What character would you cut from Better Than Before?
Her frequently asked questions "why do I do that?" "what would I do if...?" as if the reader really cares about her internal dialogue and observations about her own habit and behaviors.
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