Ep.20: Better Than Before with Gretchen Rubin

Simple

Tsh Oxenreider

Education

4.3 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Why does it seem easier for some people to make new habits than others? Maybe it's not so much that it's easier... they're just forming a new habit in a way that works best for them. Gretchen Rubin loves studying this sort of stuff, so she and Tsh talk all about habits. Her research led her to this idea that we can each fall in to one of four tendencies?upholders, questioners, obligers, and rebels?and knowing which one you are is monumentally helpful in habit forming. She's well-known for her bestselling book The Happiness Project, and her newest book, Better Than Before is now available in paperback. For links to everything in this episode, head to http://theartofsimple.net/20.

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0:00.0	It's the Simple Show. You've got episode 20.
0:04.8	Hey there, I'm Tishawkson writer, and I'm a writer, traveler, entrepreneur, and family gal.
0:09.3	I'm a big fan of simple living, but I don't think it's just about getting rid of your stuff.
0:13.4	It's about living holistically with your life's purpose. On the Simple Show, I talk with other
0:17.5	people about what that looks like for them.
0:26.7	In this episode, I am talking to Gretchen Rubin, someone I met a few years ago and have been completely intrigued with the things she researches and writes about and shares with the rest of us.
0:32.4	She's most known for her book, The Happiness Project, but her latest book is called Better
0:37.0	Than Before, which explores the idea of habits. I love her work, The Happiness Project, but her latest book is called Better Than Before, which
0:38.1	explores the idea of habits. I love her work because it's all about our everyday lives
0:43.4	and who we are at our cores. That means her writing really is applicable to just about all of us.
0:49.1	I mean, who among us isn't interested in happiness or in our own habits? Good stuff, I think.
0:55.7	One thing you'll hear in our chat is how everything comes back to self-knowledge. And if you've been around here long enough,
1:00.3	you know I'm a huge believer in that. That's what I talk about in my e-course, upstream field guide,
1:05.6	why so many of our conversations around here on the podcast end up back at stuff like Myers-Briggs
1:10.4	and Enneagram. And even my definition of simple living, which is living holistically with your life's
1:15.8	purpose, really is all about self-knowledge. There's no one-size-fits-all answer for most things
1:22.2	in our lives, and that's true about habits, which is what my conversation with Gretchen is all
1:27.2	about.
1:28.3	Hold on to your seats because this is a good one, and there's lots of takeaway for all of us.
1:33.0	Her book, Better Than Before, is now in paperback, and I've got the link for it in the show notes at
1:37.7	the art of simple.net slash 20.
1:41.0	We'll get right to our chat, but first, this episode is brought to you by new friends of
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