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Gretchen Craft Rubin (born December 14, 1965) is an American author, blogger and speaker. Early life and education Born Gretchen Anne Craft, Gretchen Rubin grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where her father was a lawyer at the firm of Craft, Fridkin & Rhyne. She attended The Pembroke Hill School. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University, was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and won the Edgar M. Cullen Prize. Career Law career Rubin clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor from 1995 to 1996. After her clerkships, she served as a chief adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt. She has also been a lecturer at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management. Writing career Rubin is a writer on subjects of habits, happiness, and human nature. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project. Rubin's books have sold more than two million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages. On her daily blog, GretchenRubin.com, she reports on her adventures in pursuit of habits and happiness. On her weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft, a Los Angeles-based television writer. The podcast won the 2016 Academy of Podcasters award for best health and fitness podcast and was a finalist in 2017. On August 10, 2003, Brian Lamb interviewed Rubin on the television show, Booknotes. She is author of The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. On September 4, 2012, Rubin published the follow-up book Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life. Her third book, Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide, parodied self-help books by analyzing and exposing the techniques used to exploit those who strive for those worldly ambitions. Her book Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life recommends setting manageable goals, and breaking up tasks into small steps. Her two biographies, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK uses the "forty ways" structure to explore the complexities of these two great figures and to demonstrate the limits of biography. Her book, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too), was published on September 12, 2017. In 2017, Rubin helped create the "Joy Index," a list of the ten "most joyous" places to visit, based on several "happiness factors". In March 2019, she published a new book, Outer Order: Inner Calm, in which she continues to trace the connection between happiness and personal habits. In April 2023, she published a new book, Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World, in which she explored the influences of the five senses on well-being. Personal life Rubin lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side with her husband, James ("Jamie") Rubin (son of former Clinton-administration Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs CEO Robert Rubin), a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and children. Writings Books Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. ISBN 978-0-345-45047-0 Forty Ways to Look at JFK. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. ISBN 978-0345450494 Power Money Fame Sex: A User's Guide. Atria, 2005. ISBN 978-0671041298 Profane Waste. Gregory R. Miller & Company, 2006. ISBN 978-0974364834 The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. New York, NY: Harper, 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-158325-4 Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life. New York, NY: Harper, 2012. ISBN 978-0307886781 Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life. New York, NY: Crown, 2015. ISBN 978-0385348614 The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too). New York, NY: Crown, 2017. ISBN 1524760919 Outer Order, Inner Calm. New York, NY: Harmony, 2019. ISBN 9781984822802 Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World New York, NY: Crown, 2023. ISBN 978-0593442746 Articles Craft, Gretchen A. (1992). "The Persistence of Dread in Law and Literature". The Yale Law Journal. 102 (2): 521–546. doi:10.2307/796846. JSTOR 796846. See also List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 8) References External links Official website Gretchen Rubin at IMDb Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the Gretchen Rubin popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Gretchen Rubin books.
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Confidence in a Minute
Tony WrightonYou're about to discover the key to instant confidence. Offering quickfix confidence boosts based on the principles of NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming), this easytouse, downtoeart...
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Summary of The Happiness Project
InstareadSummary of The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin | Includes Analysis Preview: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin is a memoir of the author’s yearlong experimen...
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Curveballs
Emma MarkezicBecause sometimes, life is going to suck, and you’re going to have to know how to handle it…What happens when you step on one of the great Lego pieces of life? When you get blindsi...
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Life Admin Hacks
Mia Northrop & Dinah Rowe-RobertsA superpractical guide to cleaning up your admin load and freeing up head space.AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 FINALISTYou have no idea what's for dinner tonight. You need a ...
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Kitchen Bliss
Laura CalderJames Beard Foundation Award– and Taste Canada Award–winning author Laura Calder is back with Kitchen Bliss, a warm, funny, and pragmatic collection of stories and recipes that rev...
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Find Your Pleasure
Cynthia LoystFrom The Social cohost Cynthia Loyst, a deeply personal lifestyle book about how to take the guilt out of pleasure and get to the heart of what you need and want in all aspects of ...
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The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin - Summary and Analysis
Omar ElbagaPlease Note: This is a summary and analysis of Gretchen Rubin’s “The Happiness Project” not the original book. We summarize and analyze each chapter to help you better understand t...
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This Messy Magnificent Life
Geneen RothGeneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God, explains how to take the journey to find one’s own best self in this “beautiful, funny, deeply relevant”...
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The Five Archetypes
Carey DavidsonDiscover the personality archetypes within you and improve your life and relationships with a new selfguided system of personal transformation.In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)...
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Better Than Before
Gretchen RubinNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Happiness Project and “a force for real change” (Brené Brown) examines how changing our habits can change our lives. ...
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Summary of Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin
GP SUMMARYDISCLAIMERThis book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.Summary of Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin:...
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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
Dan Harris, Jeffrey Warren & Carlye AdlerTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF 10% HAPPIERToo busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is...
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The Four Tendencies
Gretchen RubinNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Are you an Upholder, a Questioner, an Obliger, or a Rebel? From the author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project comes a groundbreaki...
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Our Book of Awesome
Neil PasrichaWelcome to Our Book of Awesome, a celebration of the small joys that bring us together.In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME ...
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How to be Happy
Anna BarnesHello Happiness! When you’re happy, it radiates from within and rubs off on the world. But how do you get there? With a little bit of help and inspiration, it’s both possible and d...
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The Art of the Interesting
Lorraine BesserReady to live your best possible life? It's time to make it interesting. Based on the new science of psychological richness, a guide to get beyond happiness and purpose and c...
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Carry On, Warrior
Glennon DoyleThe first book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of UntamedThe inspiring and hilarious instant New York Times bestseller from the beloved writer, speaker, activist, and...
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The Self-Care Project
Jayne Hardy'Refreshing, heartfelt and humble...a game changer in promoting positive mental health' Sarah Turner, bestselling author of THE UNMUMSY MUMThere's a damaging misconception in socie...
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Life in Five Senses
Gretchen RubinNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. “L...
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Summary of Better Than Before
InstareadSummary of Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin | Includes Analysis Preview: Gretchen Rubin is a successful selfhelp book writer, lifestyle blogger and bestselling author. In her l...
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Outer Order, Inner Calm
Gretchen RubinNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this lovely, easytouse illustrated guide to decluttering, the beloved author of The Happiness Project shows us how to take control...
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Start Here
Eric Langshur & Nate KlempA New York Times Bestseller! Imagine being less stressed, more focused, and happier every day of your life. An instant New York Times bestseller, Start Here outlines a program desi...