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The Action Catalyst

REMASTERED: Better Than Before: How To Change Your Habits, with Gretchen Rubin (Behavior, Productivity, Goal Setting, Self Improvement)

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

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Best-selling author, speaker, and podcast host Gretchen Rubin talks about why habits are superpowers, why rewards are dangerous (but treats are good), and how the easiest habits to change are the ones that are, well…the most habitual.

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0.109 - 19.265 Gretchen Rubin

I think a lot of times people get discouraged because they try and fail to form a habit over and over. But in fact, they haven't set it up in a way that's right for them. And so that's why they're not succeeding. What you see is that the people who are happier, healthier, and most productive are the people who have figured out themselves and they've set up their lives to suit them.

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21.161 - 34.792 Podcast Intro Voice

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37.415 - 48.064 Advertisement voice

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49.093 - 69.747 Action Catalyst Host

Gretchen Rubin has books that were both instant New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. And she truly is one of the world's leading thinkers and writers on habits and happiness and better than before. It is a book all about how we change our habits. So Gretchen, thanks for being here.

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69.767 - 72.209 Gretchen Rubin

Well, I'm very happy to be talking to you today.

72.429 - 78.233 Action Catalyst Host

Yeah. So I love the idea of habits and changing habits.

79.033 - 103.657 Gretchen Rubin

You know, as you said, I wrote two books about happiness, and I had been spending a lot of time thinking and researching and talking to people about happiness, and I began to notice a pattern that often when people talk about, well, a happiness boost that they've had, but really even more often a happiness challenge that they face, they often were pointing to something that at its core involved a problem with a habit.

103.757 - 116.401 Gretchen Rubin

So somebody would say, like, oh, I'm exhausted all the time. But really to me that sounded like, you're not going to bed early enough. Like, why aren't you able to form the habit of turning the light out at 11 instead of at 2 a.m.? What's going on with your habits?

116.701 - 136.208 Gretchen Rubin

And often people would talk about a habit that they knew that if they made it or broke it would make them happier, but somehow they just weren't able to translate that into action. And then I had a lunch with a friend who made this casual comment that got me obsessed with habits. And she said the thing is I would be happier if I exercised. And when I was in high school, I was in the track team.

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