Gretchen Rubin has personal experience with how establishing order may improve our happiness, health, creativity, and productivity. However, a strict, one-size-fits-all approach is ineffective for the majority of us.
We can achieve inner peace by customising our strategy to fit our unique obstacles and routines. Withith a light-hearted tone and a clear understanding of what most people can really do, Rubin offers dozens of doable suggestions for making a more calm, organised space.
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About the author
One of the most significant and provocative observers of pleasure and human nature in the modern era is Gretchen Rubin.
In addition to the best-selling novels BETTER THAN BEFORE, HAPPIER AT HOME, THE FOUR TENDENCIES, and OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM, she has authored the #1 New York Times bestseller THE HAPPINESS PROJECT. LIFE IN FIVE SENSES is her most recent work.
She hosts the well-known and acclaimed podcast “Happier with Gretchen Rubin,” in which she and her sister, co-host Elizabeth Craft, discuss methods and ideas for improving happiness. She is the creator of The Happiness Project and has contributed to the development of creative items that individuals may utilise in their own happiness initiatives.
She has been featured on Jeopardy, interviewed by Oprah, shared dinner with Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kahneman, walked arm in arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work featured in a medical publication, and been featured in the New Yorker!
While clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Gretchen Rubin discovered she wanted to pursue a career in writing. She was raised in Kansas City and now resides with her family in New York City.
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Review
“She spent a year road-testing every theory about happiness she could get her hands on, using her own life as the road, with the help of her formidable intelligence and willingness to try anything.” —TIME
After reading Gretchen Rubin’s account of a year spent seeking fulfilment, you’ll want to begin your own happiness project and enlist the help of your loved ones. This is one of the few books that will make you ponder and grin at the same time, frequently at the same time.
Drive’s Daniel H. Pink
“Rubin discovered how humans create, utilise, and modify habits after learning that they were closely linked to enjoyment. My relationship with habits changed forever when I realised that they are a way to harness our own laziness—forming a habit frees you from making decisions, which you can utilise to your benefit. The New Yorker
“Outlines the fundamental objectives of existence… acts as a type of comprehensive guide with instructions on how to do things.
Book Review, New York Times
“Gretchen Rubin is the best person to help us become organised, start exercising, and quit putting things off. Old ideas about transformation are sledgehammered by the happiness guru. —The Parade
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“Gretchen Rubin explains how habits form and—more importantly—how they might change by fusing extensive research with personal experience. Anyone who wants to change their behaviour (almost instinctively) must have it.
—Charles Duhigg, Habit’s Power
I adore Gretchen Rubin as a writer because she is hilarious, kind, and really intelligent. She is excellent, in my opinion. —Anne Lamott, Help and Bird by Bird, Regards, Whoa!
“Curiosity is Gretchen Rubin’s superpower. Better Than Before is a catalyst for genuine change by fusing research, memorable examples, and her astute insight. Dare to Lead and Dare Greatly, by Brenda Brown
“With her signature blend of endearing charm, careful investigation, and wise counsel… Gretchen Rubin demonstrates how to bring happiness, fun, and balance to your household.”
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Strength of Introverts in a Talkative Society
Filled with excellent research and useful solutions”. Rubin is a talented writer as well, and her passion for making people’s lives better is infectious.
—Harlan Coben
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Summary
As a professional organiser, I frequently enjoy reading books and blogs on organising, taking online workshops, and looking at photos of rooms that other organisers have completed. I recently discovered Gretchen Rubin’s book Outer Order, Inner Calm and asked the library for it.
I recognised Rubin’s name, and after reading the book, I understood why. Also, Rubin wrote The Happiness Project, which I bought a few years ago and finally gave away while performing a house sweep motivated by Marie Kondo’s Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.