Gretchen Rubin
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I didn't have time to write a short one. It takes a long time to write short.
I didn't have time to write a short one. It takes a long time to write short.
I didn't have time to write a short one. It takes a long time to write short.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
No, yes. I always, whatever it is that I'm dealing with my own life, I'm always like, okay, and I'll write a book about it and that's how I'll figure it out because I can't think if I'm not writing something down. And so that's definitely true for me. But the funny thing about this book is often when I'm writing a book, I have something called a hooky book, which is the book.
No, yes. I always, whatever it is that I'm dealing with my own life, I'm always like, okay, and I'll write a book about it and that's how I'll figure it out because I can't think if I'm not writing something down. And so that's definitely true for me. But the funny thing about this book is often when I'm writing a book, I have something called a hooky book, which is the book.
No, yes. I always, whatever it is that I'm dealing with my own life, I'm always like, okay, and I'll write a book about it and that's how I'll figure it out because I can't think if I'm not writing something down. And so that's definitely true for me. But the funny thing about this book is often when I'm writing a book, I have something called a hooky book, which is the book.
It's like my busman's holiday. It's the book that I go work on when I'm like sort of like taking a break from what I'm actually supposed to be doing. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination, but fortunately for me, sometimes my hooky books actually get published. This was a hooky book. The Four Tendencies was a hooky book. Outer Order, Inner Calm was a hooky book.
It's like my busman's holiday. It's the book that I go work on when I'm like sort of like taking a break from what I'm actually supposed to be doing. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination, but fortunately for me, sometimes my hooky books actually get published. This was a hooky book. The Four Tendencies was a hooky book. Outer Order, Inner Calm was a hooky book.
It's like my busman's holiday. It's the book that I go work on when I'm like sort of like taking a break from what I'm actually supposed to be doing. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination, but fortunately for me, sometimes my hooky books actually get published. This was a hooky book. The Four Tendencies was a hooky book. Outer Order, Inner Calm was a hooky book.
I wrote a book called My Color Pilgrimage because I went through this period of being absolutely preoccupied with color. I've shown it to a few people. I think it's really interesting, I have to say. And they're always like, well, you had fun with that, didn't you? So that book may never see the light of day. So I have all kinds of oddball projects, some of which will come to have a life.
I wrote a book called My Color Pilgrimage because I went through this period of being absolutely preoccupied with color. I've shown it to a few people. I think it's really interesting, I have to say. And they're always like, well, you had fun with that, didn't you? So that book may never see the light of day. So I have all kinds of oddball projects, some of which will come to have a life.
I wrote a book called My Color Pilgrimage because I went through this period of being absolutely preoccupied with color. I've shown it to a few people. I think it's really interesting, I have to say. And they're always like, well, you had fun with that, didn't you? So that book may never see the light of day. So I have all kinds of oddball projects, some of which will come to have a life.
When I was working on this, I had just a giant document of aphorisms. And some were secrets of adulthood in that they had some kind of useful... Yeah. thing to remind people when they're dealing with relationships or trying to get, when we're trying to get ourselves to do something or trying to know ourselves better. But then I had a lot that I would call just mere observations.
When I was working on this, I had just a giant document of aphorisms. And some were secrets of adulthood in that they had some kind of useful... Yeah. thing to remind people when they're dealing with relationships or trying to get, when we're trying to get ourselves to do something or trying to know ourselves better. But then I had a lot that I would call just mere observations.
When I was working on this, I had just a giant document of aphorisms. And some were secrets of adulthood in that they had some kind of useful... Yeah. thing to remind people when they're dealing with relationships or trying to get, when we're trying to get ourselves to do something or trying to know ourselves better. But then I had a lot that I would call just mere observations.
This was me just noticing something like the tulip is an empty flower. What is up with that? The tulip is an empty flower. I find them very unsatisfying. That is a mere observation. And then I also have a bunch of bleak aphorisms. I'm like, nobody wants Gretchen Rubin's bleak aphorisms. I'll leave those to the side. So these are really the ones that are useful.
This was me just noticing something like the tulip is an empty flower. What is up with that? The tulip is an empty flower. I find them very unsatisfying. That is a mere observation. And then I also have a bunch of bleak aphorisms. I'm like, nobody wants Gretchen Rubin's bleak aphorisms. I'll leave those to the side. So these are really the ones that are useful.