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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: What’s the Best Way to Change a Habit?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Whenever people ask me, “What’s the right way to change a habit? If you had to pick one best way, what would you say?” I answer, “What’s the best way to cook an egg?” In both cases, the best way depends on you. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

0:33.2

In my book Better Than Before, I write about the 21 strategies that we can use to make or break our

0:38.8

habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life, and research suggests that about

0:44.7

40% of our existence is shaped by our habits. Sometimes, people are dismayed when I tell them

0:52.7

that they can choose from among 21 strategies. They say, 21 is too many. Give me the three that

0:59.1

work best. Or just one. Now, in fact, it's helpful that so many strategies exist because

1:06.0

some strategies work very well for some people, but not for others, and some strategies are available

1:11.6

to us at sometimes in our lives, but not at other times. So when people ask me for the best

1:17.5

way to change our habits, I explain that there is no best way because people are different.

1:23.1

We all have our own interests, our own temperament, our own values, our own circumstances.

1:28.4

So it depends. But often, people dismiss that explanation, and they ask again,

1:34.0

okay, sure, but tell me what's the best way? If you had to pick one way, what's the right way to

1:40.5

change a habit? For a long time, I was confounded by this response. I had no idea how to make my point

1:47.4

clearer that there could be no magic one-size-fits-all solution to changing habits.

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