First Draft Episode #279: Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and more, co-host of the Happier podcast, and creator of the Four Tendencies framework.

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Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

• Sandra Day O’Connor

• Jonathan Burnham, President and Publisher of the Harper Division at HarperCollins

• Robert Caro

• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

• The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs

• William Hazlitt, esasyist, critic, painter, social commenter, and philosopher

• Samuel Johnson, poet, essayist, and one of Gretchen’s favorite provider of quotes

• On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety by Andrea Petersen

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey

• The Happier Podcast interview with musician Roseanne Cash

• Take the Four Tendencies quiz

• Everything is Copy, a documentary about writer/screenwriter/director Nora Ephron

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