Summary of Better Than Before: by Gretchen Rubin | Includes Analysis

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Summary of Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin | Includes Analysis

 

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Gretchen Rubin is a successful self-help book writer, lifestyle blogger and bestselling author. In her latest book, Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, she unveils

• Language: English
• Publisher: Instaread, Inc
• Release date: May 16, 2016
• ISBN: 9781683781288

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OVERVIEW

Gretchen Rubin is a successful self-help book writer, lifestyle blogger and bestselling author. In her latest book, Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, she unveils methods and approaches to maintain habits that can improve people’s lives.

Rubin roots the book in personal experiences with her own family and friends while using relevant data and studies to streamline her ideas. She also references several successful people across different disciplines to illuminate the power of habits. She specifically investigates how habits are formed, how they are kept and, most importantly, why there is no universal formula to adopt them. The process is independent and relative to personality traits.

In order to understand how they can change their lives, people must first recognize what type of person they are and how they operate best. People should consider whether they are night or morning types, procrastinators or deadline warriors, or need accountability to accomplish goals. Once people understand how they function at their highest level, they can tailor their habits to their specific traits.

Rubin looks at diets, work, school, and family life in order to convey the main points on habit formation. Her main conclusion, after exhaustively studying habits both personally and in her research, is that there is typically no drastic transformation that takes place with most people. However, habits can lead to life improvements. That is what it