
She’s the host of the popular, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she and her co-host (and sister) Elizabeth Craft explore strategies and insights about how to make life happier. Her latest book is Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World.

Her previous books include the #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, as well as the bestselling books Better Than Before, Happier at Home, The Four Tendencies, and Outer Order, Inner Calm.


As the founder of The Happiness Project, she has helped create imaginative products for people to use in their own happiness pr Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. In this episode, "Choose the Bigger Life," Gretchen and her sister, Elizabeth Craft, discuss happiness, good habits, and whether Gretchen is going to get a dog.Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. Among other things, she found that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness that money can help buy happiness, when spent wisely that outer order contributes to inner calm and that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference.Īs an added bonus, this recording includes a sampling of Gretchen’s podcast, Happier With Gretchen Rubin. In this lively and compelling account, Rubin chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus.

Drawing on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world examples, Rubin delivers an engaging, eminently relatable chronicle of transformation. Gretchen Rubin’s year-long experiment to discover how to create true happiness. Filled with open, honest glimpses into real life, woven together with constant doses of humor.” - Christian Science Monitor
