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- Celebrating minor holidays makes time stand out.
- People struggling to keep a morning routine should try to know themselves better and adapt it, since no tool fits every hand.
Gretchen Rubin
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
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What Gretchen Rubin says most about
happiness 3
- Making other people happy is one of the best ways to make yourself happy
- Happiness doesn't always feel happy
ambition 2
- An unstarted, unresolved task is more mentally exhausting than almost any other kind of task.
- A task with no fixed deadline tends to never get done at all.
family 2
- Parental stress and sleep deprivation make harsh reactions to normal child behavior more likely.
- Yelling and nagging at children produces compliance in the moment but costs tension, sulking, and guilt.
management 2
- Reminding someone to do a task can make them less likely to do it.
- A team made up of people with similar personality traits ends up lacking the strengths that more varied traits would provide.
motivation 2
- People who reliably meet every demand placed on them will eventually snap and stop complying if their workload isn't kept sustainable.
- An unstarted, unresolved task is more mentally exhausting than almost any other kind of task.
writing 2
- Roald Dahl is one of the most distinctive writers ever.
- An idea stated in a more fluent or rhyming form seems more true or persuasive than the same idea stated plainly.