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Better Than Before
- Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
- Narrated by: Gretchen Rubin
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Best-selling author Gretchen Rubin (The Happiness Project and Happier at Home) explores habits - the invisible architecture of everyday life - and how they can make us more likely to be happy, healthy, productive, and creative. When we change our habits, we change our lives.
Gretchen Rubin, author of the blockbuster New York Times best sellers The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, has helped millions of readers get happier. Now she tackles the critical question: How can we make good habits and break bad ones? In a book that's crammed with big, provocative ideas, Rubin shows readers how to create the habits that will transform their lives, even if they've failed before. The secret, Rubin explains, is to pinpoint the specific strategies that will work for us.
From finding the right time to begin a new habit to setting up a counterintuitive system of reward to using the pleasure of treats to strengthen our good habits, Rubin identifies the 21 strategies that will allow every listener to find an effective, individual fit. Along the way Rubin uses herself as a 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? How can I get myself to stick to a new habit?
- I want to help someone else make a change. But how?
- Why can I make time for everyone else but can't make time for myself?
Whether listeners want to get more sleep, make and maintain weight loss, stop checking their phone,s or finish projects, habits make change possible. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.
Listening to just a few chapters of Better Than Before will start listeners working on their own habits - even before they've finished the audiobook.
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- Ann
- 08-05-2016
Fabulous - a must have book.
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I love the differentiation of this book it is not a one size fits all and it gives recommendations for different types of person e.g. larks or nightingales! Which makes perfect sense as we all have different strengths and weaknesses, likes, dislikes etc. This book helps you with the what and how of making change happen. It is so inspirational and motivating. Thank you Gretchen.
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- Anouska Schaefer
- 12-06-2017
A life changer for me
The ideas in this book won't be for everyone, but they spoke to me and have been life-changing. Loved this book and how it's helping me shape a happier life's
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- Samaseena
- 29-03-2015
Loved this book
Loved it. Have just finished and am clicking play to listen to it all over again! Great ideas and lots of take aways.
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- Christine
- 23-06-2015
Love this book and author so much
Gretchen Rubin has changed the way I look at the world. She speaks so honestly and defines habits in understandable terms. I highly recommend this book. I'm so happy I found it!
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- Kristy
- 23-02-2022
It makes you want to be better than before
Great book, easy to listen to on audible. Some really interesting pieces on tendencies and habits that I hadn’t heard before. I recommend this audiobook.
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- P M CODY
- 05-10-2016
One of the most useful books I've read this year!
I'm not the effusive type, so when I write a 5-star review it really does mean I've found the book to be enormously helpful, well-written, and engaging. The "four tendencies" framework makes sense to me and is a really useful filter for understanding why I do things, and, just as importantly, why I don't do things, and why motivational strategies that work for others don't often work well for me. I highly recommend this book! As an audiobook, I also loved the fact that Gretchen narrated it herself. Her voice is expressive, her diction clear, and she is very easy to listen to. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will undoubtedly listen again!
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- Anonymous User
- 30-06-2018
Absolutely loved this book!
So much inspiration in this book. Definitely recommend for anyone wanting to improve their life and themselves. I especially loved the book as a new parent... I want to make sure I’m proud of the habits I’m passing onto my little girl :)
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- Hellola
- 18-02-2019
Engaging and intriguing !
I really liked the emphasis on how it's not a one size fits all reality!
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-04-2016
Great advice and easy to follow
Really enjoyed listening & working out what would work for me. Couldn't wait for my next Gretchen Rubin fix. I have her previous books (e-book and actual) and this is the first one I have finished.
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- Adrian McMahon
- 02-08-2018
Great Book
I really enjoyed this book. Very interesting insights into how to start and maintain good habits.
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