Gretchen Rubin Explained

Gretchen Rubin
Birth Name:Gretchen Anne Craft
Birth Date:14 December 1965
Birth Place:Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Alma Mater:Yale University (BA, JD)
Occupation:Author
blogger
speaker
Notableworks:The Happiness Project
Better Than Before
The Four Tendencies
Children:2
Relatives:Elizabeth Craft (sister)

Gretchen Craft Rubin (born December 14, 1965) is an American author, blogger and speaker.

Early life and education

Born Gretchen Anne Craft, Gretchen Rubin grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where her father was a lawyer at the firm of Craft, Fridkin & Rhyne.[1] She attended The Pembroke Hill School.[2] [3] She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University, was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and won the Edgar M. Cullen Prize.[4]

Career

Law career

Rubin clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor from 1995 to 1996. After her clerkships, she served as a chief adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt.[5] She has also been a lecturer at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management.[6]

Writing career

Rubin is a writer on subjects of habits, happiness,[7] and human nature.[8] She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project.[9] Rubin's books have sold more than two million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages.[10] [11] On her daily blog, GretchenRubin.com, she reports on her adventures in pursuit of habits and happiness. On her weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft, a Los Angeles-based television writer.[12] [13] [14] The podcast won the 2016 Academy of Podcasters award for best health and fitness podcast and was a finalist in 2017.[15] [16] On August 10, 2003, Brian Lamb interviewed Rubin on the television show, Booknotes.

She is author of 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.[17] On September 4, 2012, Rubin published the follow-up book Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life.[18] Her third book, Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide, parodied self-help books by analyzing and exposing the techniques used to exploit those who strive for those worldly ambitions.[19] [20]

Her book Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life recommends setting manageable goals, and breaking up tasks into small steps.[21] [22] [23] [24] Her two biographies, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK uses the "forty ways" structure to explore the complexities of these two great figures and to demonstrate the limits of biography.[25] [26] [27]

Her book, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too), was published on September 12, 2017.[28] [29]

In 2017, Rubin helped create the "Joy Index," a list of the ten "most joyous" places to visit, based on several "happiness factors".[30]

In March 2019, she published a new book, Outer Order: Inner Calm, in which she continues to trace the connection between happiness and personal habits.[31]

In April 2023, she published a new book, Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World, in which she explored the influences of the five senses on well-being.

Personal life

Rubin lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She married Jamie Rubin in 1994, and the couple have two daughters.[3] [32]

Writings

Books

Articles

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Margolies . Dan . His signature's on the buck, but did Rubin pay the tab? . May 12, 2017 . Kansas City Business Journal . December 13, 1998.
  2. Web site: Watch Alumna's Hazard Lecture . Pembroke Hill School . May 12, 2017 . October 2, 2014.
  3. Harrison Smith, Sarah (October 5, 2012). "Happiness Expert, Plying Her Craft". The New York Times.
  4. Web site: Class of 1989 15th Reunion . Yale University . May 12, 2017.
  5. Web site: May 27, 1997 . Speech of Reed E. Hundt: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow . October 3, 2017 . U.S. Federal Communications Commission . Gretchen Rubin...as Legal Advisors, have served brilliantly and wonderfully.
  6. Web site: September 14, 2001 . Yale Bulletin and Calendar . October 3, 2017 . Yale University . Visiting lecturer at the Yale School of Management Gretchen Rubin.
  7. Web site: Happiness in a Pandemic . October 22, 2020 . Spark Podcast . August 19, 2020 . en-US.
  8. Paumgarten . Nick . Dept. of Self-Help Former Lives A Rubin's Guide to Getting it All . May 12, 2017 . . September 11, 2000.
  9. News: 100 Bestselling books of 2012 . May 12, 2017 . Toronto Star . December 28, 2012. Special interest: rank number 11, Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin.
  10. News: Koncius . Jura . Find your inner calm by containing your clutter . May 13, 2017 . . . July 11, 2016.
  11. News: Turnbull . Barbara . Gretchen Rubin's top happiness tip . May 12, 2017 . . September 11, 2012.
  12. Larson . Sarah . Better Living Through Podcasts . April 21, 2019 . . August 17, 2015.
  13. News: Quah . Nicholas . My Favorite Murder's Creators Are Launching a Podcast Network . August 18, 2018 . Vulture.com . August 15, 2018.
  14. News: Schawbel . Dan . March 17, 2015 . Gretchen Rubin: How To Create Healthy Workplace Habits . . October 15, 2015.
  15. Web site: Academy of Podcasters: Past Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171003154507/http://academyofpodcasters.com/past-winners/ . October 3, 2017 . Academy of Podcasters . Podcast Movement.
  16. Web site: August 23, 2017 . 2017 Finalist . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190205214327/http://academyofpodcasters.com/winners-and-nominees/ . February 5, 2019 . Academy of Podcasters . Podcast Movement.
  17. News: Fraser . Elizabeth . WV Book Team: Finding your happy place through reading . August 18, 2018 . Charleston Gazette-Mail . August 11, 2018.
  18. News: Zipp . Yvonne . Looking for happiness at work, home and in life . May 12, 2017 . . October 19, 2012.
  19. News: Wood . Thomas . Power Money Fame Sex: A User's Guide . May 12, 2017 . Bookpage.com . September 2000 . March 6, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180306142711/https://bookpage.com/reviews/1544-gretchen-rubin-power-money-fame-sex-users-guide . dead .
  20. News: Review: Power Money Fame Sex: A User's Guide . May 12, 2017 . Publishers Weekly.
  21. News: Ko . Claudine . How to actually keep those New Year's resolutions . June 17, 2017 . New York Post . January 7, 2016.
  22. News: Nesdoly . Tracy . Taking Gretchen Rubin's advice, it's never too late to know better: Nesdoly . May 12, 2017 . Toronto Star . June 7, 2015.
  23. News: Roberts . Genevieve . Gretchen Rubin: In trying to tackle our bad habits, has the author developed some of her own? . May 12, 2017 . The Independent (UK) . March 24, 2015.
  24. News: Stevens . Heidi . In 'Better Than Before,' Gretchen Rubin examines how habits shape our lives . May 12, 2017 . . March 9, 2015.
  25. Web site: Review: Forty Ways to Look at JFK. . . Booklist . May 12, 2017 . October 1, 2005.
  26. Book: Forty Ways to Look at JFK-Hardcover . October 25, 2005 . 0345450493 . Rubin . Gretchen Craft. Ballantine Books .
  27. Book: Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life . Amazon . May 11, 2004 . Random House . May 12, 2017.
  28. Book: Rubin . Gretchen . The Four Tendencies . 2017 . Penguin Random House . New York, NY . 978-1524760915 . October 3, 2017.
  29. News: Saner . Emine . Want to be happier? First, work out if you're an 'upholder' or a 'rebel' . October 4, 2017 . . September 11, 2017.
  30. News: Sewing . Joy . Houston named 10th most joyous place on Earth . October 8, 2017 . . June 23, 2017.
  31. News: Lanks . Belinda . Spring Books: Spring Cleaning Stay on top of things with helpful books from Mason Currey, Laura Vanderkam and Gretchen Rubin. . April 21, 2019 . . April 12, 2019.
  32. News: Hoffman . Jan . February 26, 2010 . On Top of the Happiness Racket . . October 15, 2015.
  33. Outer Order, Inner Calm at publisher's websight.

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