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Can the Simple Act of Making a List Boost Your Happiness?
Every Wednesday is List Day, or Tip Day, or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: Can the simple act of making a list boost your happiness? When I was in college, I took a class on the culture of Heian Japan, and...
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What Kind of Person Are You? The Four Rubin Tendencies.
Back by popular demand–the four Rubin Tendencies (I keep changing the name of this framework. Any suggestions or comments welcome. Do you like the Rubin Character Index Better?) It’s very important to...
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Are You an “Energizer” or a “De-Energizer” at Work?
I’m re-posting this quiz, because I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue lately. I read Cross and Perker’s The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in...
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Want to Know Yourself Better, to Shape Your Habits Better? Take This Quiz.
Every Wednesday is Quiz Day, or Tip Day, or List Day. This Wednesday: Want to know yourself better, so you can shape your habits better? Did I mention that I’m working on a book about habit-formation?...
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Quiz: Are You an Upholder, a Questioner, a Rebel, or an Obliger?
Every Wednesday is Quiz Day, or Tip Day, or List Day. This Wednesday: Quiz: Are you an Upholder, a Questioner, a Rebel, or an Obliger? In the course of writing my book about habit-formation, Before...
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Does Your Sweetheart Drive You Nuts with the Very Qualities that Attracted You?
Every Wednesday is List Day, or Quiz Day, or Tip Day. This Wednesday: Are you driven nuts by the very qualities that drew you to your sweetheart? A few days ago, I read Elizabeth Bernstein’s Wall...
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Which of These 8 Types Describes You, as You Relate to Your Environment?
Every Wednesday is List Day, Tip Day, or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: Which of these 8 types describes how you relate to your physical environment? I’ve been reading Brian Little’s interesting book, Me,...
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Ta-Da! The Launch of My Quiz on the Four Tendencies. Learn About Yourself!
Of everything I learned about habits and human nature from working on my book Better Than Before, the most challenging thing I figured out — and the insight I’m most proud of — is my Four Tendencies...
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Quiz Yourself: What Kind of Play Do You Enjoy?
Every Wednesday is Tip Day — or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: Quiz: What’s your personality — for play? As I’ve worked on the subjects of habits and happiness, the importance of play has becoming...
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Podcast 35: A Close Look at the Upholder Personality; Are You Like Gretchen...
It’s time for the next installment of “Happier with Gretchen Rubin.” (Remember, if you’d like to get an email alert every time we release a new episode, you can sign up here.) Update: Elizabeth is...
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Do You Love Personality Quizzes? These 10 Books Will Help You Understand...
They say there are two kinds of people in the world: people who want to divide the world into two kinds of people, and the kind of people who don’t. Well, I’m the kind who does. I love personality...
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Podcast 71: Choose a Signature Color, and Ask “Am I an Alchemist or a...
It’s time for the next installment of “Happier with Gretchen Rubin.” Update: We’ve heard from people about how they’re designing their summer. Great ideas. Try This at Home: Choose a signature color....
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Podcast 99: Take Personality Quizzes, Consider Your Email Habits, and Book...
It’s time for the next installment of Happier with Gretchen Rubin. We’re having so much fun with our Instagram project. Every day, for the month of January, Elizabeth and I are posting a photo on...
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Revealed! February Book Club: Keys to Good Design, a Personality Quiz, and...
Because nothing boosts happiness more than a great book, each month, I suggest: — one outstanding book about happiness or habits — one outstanding work of children’s or young-adult literature–I have a...
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Big Announcement: the “Better” App Is Now Free to Use!
My obsession with my Four Tendencies framework is just as strong as ever. Ever since I first came up with the Four Tendencies framework, I’ve grown more and more interested in it — and more and more...
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Help! Have Ideas for a Four Tendencies Quiz for Kids?
I’m getting geared up for publication of my book The Four Tendencies — planning the book tour, getting ready to launch the major pre-order bonus (stay tuned for that!), thinking about my book talk. I...
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