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Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin

October 28, 2021 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Gretchen Rubin is a former lawyer who left the legal world for the literary one- she started with Happier, which spawned a podcast of the same name that she co-hosts with her sister, and an expanding line of related self-help-y books, including this one. This was the first of her books that I’ve read, although I listen to the podcast frequently (so I had pretty solid expectation for what I was getting into). Rubin’s overarching thesis for this book is how we get ourselves to […]

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The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin

April 12, 2021 by dsbs42 Leave a Comment

Or the full name: The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too). Yeesh. We all love taking personality quizzes, don’t we? Which Hogwarts house we’d belong to (I’m a Ravenpuff), which is our True Colour (Green/Blue tie), which Friends character we’d be (…Mondler). Or, perhaps slightly more scientifically, our Myers-Briggs profile, or Big Five ratings. When I was in high school, there was one proto-BuzzFeed-type website where you could do all sorts […]

Time to Get Happy

May 12, 2014 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

I have been reading a lot of books lately about clearing out the clutter of one’s home (and mind), for an easier life. A friend suggested I might want to check out 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 by Gretchen Rubin, so I gave it a try. I can’t say that there was anything new or startling in its pages, but it was a quick, mostly […]

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