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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Unconventional Wisdom on Habits and Happiness with Gretchen Rubin

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Unmistakable Creative, author of the The Happiness Project, and Better than Before joins us to share unconventional wisdom on habits and happiness. 


HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Manageable and Realistic Ways to Become Happier
  • Why We Need a Burning Desire and the Willingness to do the work 
  • The Power of Unconditional Support from Important People in your Life 
  • Four Tendencies That Drive our Habits 
  • The Role of Intrinsic Motivation 
  • Understanding What is True of You 
  • A Critical Variable that Changes all Formulas for Success 
  • The Myth of Safety and Security 
  • Questions that Help You to Discover What’s True You 
  • How Your Personality Impacts Your Habits 
  • Setting Aside Time for Your Highest Value Work


BOOKS AND RESOURCES 

The Habits Quiz

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Happier with Gretchen Rubin (Podcast)

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin 

Better than Before  by Gretchen Rubin 

Daily Rituals by Mason Currey


QUOTES

Getting enough sleep is one of the few iron laws of habit formation. 


Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the blockbuster New York Timesbestsellers, Better Than BeforeThe Happiness Project and Happier at Home. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold more than two million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages


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In this episode of The Un Mistakable Creative, the author of the Happiness Project,

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and better than before, Gretchen Rubin joins us to share unconventional wisdom on happiness and habits.

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I'm Sreeney Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best selling books, and created insanely

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