May 13, 2015
Habit-building specialist, popular podcaster, and perennial New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Rubin is our guest today in Episode 960 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
Breaking bad habits and behaviors can seem
like an impossible thing to do because the pull to keep doing the
same things you are used to doing is so incredibly strong. But for
a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor-turned-writer named Gretchen Rubin, bringing
about change is all about creating new good habits that are much
more desirable while making your old bad habits into something you
just don't have any desire to do anymore. If you've never heard of
Gretchen before, she's a pretty big deal in the publishing world
selling over two million copies of her books worldwide in more than
thirty languages. Her 2009 classic book 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 was a runaway New
York Times hit and now she's back with her
much-anticipated follow-up release (which has already hit
the New York Times bestsellers list)
called Better
Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives.
She's also got an extremely popular self-help iTunes podcast
entitled Happier
with Gretchen Rubin that's worth checking out. Listen in
as Jimmy and Gretchen talk about her support for low-carb living
ever since reading Gary Taubes' 2010 book Why
We Get Fat and What To Do About It, her "Four
Tendencies" quiz, and a whole lot more!
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 960
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- Gretchen Rubin
bio
- Better
Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday
Lives
- 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
- GretchenRubin.com
- Happier
with Gretchen Rubin iTunes podcast
- "Ta-Da!
The Launch of My Quiz on the Four Tendencies. Learn About
Yourself!"