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Gretchen Craft Rubin was editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked on the Supreme Court under Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and served as counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. An adjunct professor at Yale, she currently lives in Manhattan. (Publisher Provided) Gretchen Rubin started her mostra altro career in law and was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer. She writes on the linked subjects of habits, happiness, and human nature on her daily blog as well as in books. Her books include Happier at Home, The Happiness Project, and Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: David Cross
Opere di Gretchen Rubin
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read… (2009) 4,871 copie
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice… (2012) 735 copie
The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other… (2017) 506 copie
Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World (2023) 108 copie
The Happiness Project Mini Posters: A Coloring Book: 20 Hand-Lettered Quotes to Pull Out and Frame (2017) 7 copie
THE BEST OF THE HAPPINESS PROJECT BLOG: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More (2016) 5 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Rubin, Gretchen Craft
- Data di nascita
- 20th century
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Yale University
- Attività lavorative
- lawyer
author
blogger
speaker - Relazioni
- Rubin, Robert (father-in-law)
- Organizzazioni
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, Inc. Magazine
- Agente
- Fletcher, Christy
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Health & Medical (2)
Shelf 101 (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 24
- Utenti
- 8,323
- Popolarità
- #2,899
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 289
- ISBN
- 155
- Lingue
- 15
- Preferito da
- 3
Lately much as been written about how we exert control over ourselves (I'm thinking in particular of "The Power of Habit", and "Willpower", among others). While many books provide ample scientific background about why we do what we do (or don't do what we should) without providing an action plan, Rubin lays out practical steps for creating and sustaining habits based on one's personality type. She includes a quiz to help the reader self-identify his/her likely pattern of behavior (upholder, questioner, rebel, or obliger).
Rubin discusses the human nature of managing only what we monitor, the necessity of accountability in establishing good habits, and why convenience is worth the cost if positive habits are a result.… (altro)