Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She’s known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas with humor and clarity, in a way that’s accessible to a wide audience.

She’s been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work written up in a medical journal, been the subject of a “The Talk of the Town” piece in The New Yorker magazine, and been an answer on the game show Jeopardy!

She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Four Tendencies and Better Than Before. Her book The Happiness Project has sold more than one million copies, been published in more than thirty languages, and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, including at #1.

In her books, she draws from cutting-edge science, the wisdom of the ages, lessons from popular culture, and her own experiences to explore how we can make our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.

On her top-ranked, award-winning podcast “Happier with Gretchen Rubin,” she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft; they’ve been called the “Click and Clack of podcasters.” “Happier” was named in iTunes’s lists of “Best Podcasts of 2015” and was named in the Academy of Podcasters “Best Podcasts of 2016.” BuzzFeed listed “Happier” in 10 Life-Changing Things to Try in June and The New Yorker wrote, “Their voices remind you that life is a human project that we’re all experimenting with.” The podcast consistently appears at the top of the charts in Apple Podcasts.

On her popular website, she reports on her daily adventures in the pursuit of happiness and good habits. Millions of people read her posts each year. “I’ve become a bit of a happiness bully,” she confessed.

With her work, Gretchen Rubin has emerged as one of the most interesting commentators on habits and happiness. Though her conclusions are sometimes counter-intuitive—for example, she finds that rewards play a very tricky role in the formation of habits, and true simplicity is far from simple to attain, and that used rightly, money can do a lot to buy happiness—her insights resonate with readers of all backgrounds.

Response to Gretchen Rubin’s writing has been overwhelming. Dozens of blogs have been launched by people following Gretchen’s example. Doctors tell their patients to read her books, professors assign them to their students, book groups discuss them, families pass them around, and people do Habits and Happiness Projects together. Exhausted parents and college students, senior citizens and professionals, clergy and social workers, people facing divorce, illness, and drift have written to tell her how she’s influenced them. In the New York Times Book Review, Gretchen Rubin was described as “the queen of the self-help memoir.” “It’s great to be called the queen, but I’d say my work is ‘self-helpful,’ not ‘self-help.’” Gretchen explained. She added, “Really, I’m a moral essayist, but that sounds so dull.”

Gretchen Rubin is much in demand as a speaker, and she has addressed corporate audiences at places such as GE, Google, LinkedIn, Accenture, Procter & Gamble, as well as university audiences such as Yale Law School, Harvard Business School, and Wharton. She has appeared at numerous conferences as a featured speaker or keynoter, at places such as SXSW, World Domination Summit, the 92nd Street Y, 5×15, TEDx, BlogHer, the Atlantic, Alt Design, Q Cities, Behance’s 99u, Mom 2.0, West Point, Lucid, and the Texas, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania Conferences for Women. She makes frequent TV appearances, for instance, on Today, Kathie Lee & Hoda, CBS Sunday Morning, The Early Show, Katie, “Q” radio, Booknotes with Brian Lamb, and “NPR’s Weekend Edition.” The Happiness Project” was even an answer on the game-show Jeopardy!

Gretchen Rubin, an enthusiastic proponent of using technology to engage with an audience about ideas, has a wide, active following on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube (more than 2.3 million views)—not to mention her wildly popular newsletter, book club, and the “Moment of Happiness,” her free daily email newsletter of happiness quotations. She has a weekly show on Facebook, called “Ask Gretchen Rubin Live.” Gretchen Rubin has served on advisory councils for companies including Heleo, Scribd, and Happify. Her Four Tendencies quiz has been taken by over 1 million people.

Gretchen Rubin is a notable example of an author using a blog and social media to create discussion around a subject and her work. Rubin was one of the first people asked to become a LinkedIn “Influencer,” where she has an enormous, active group of followers. She was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness,” one of the Inc.’s Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, and one of the “22 Brilliant Thinkers Everyone Should Follow on Twitter” by Business Insider. In traditional media, Rubin has written for many national publications. She appeared on the inaugural cover of Live Happy magazine as well as the cover of Parade magazine.

In 2017, Gretchen Rubin was named to the "Books for a Better Life" Hall of Fame, alongside authors such as Marianne Williamson, Dr. Andrew Weil, Deepak Chopra, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Mark Bittman.

A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal and winner of the Edgar M. Cullen Prize, Gretchen Rubin started her career in law. She clerked for Judge Pierre Leval and was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized she really wanted to be a writer.

Gretchen Rubin is a well-known lover of children’s and young-adult literature (she’s in three children’s literature reading groups); an advocate for organ donation; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a massive consumer of caffeine.

Of everything she’s ever written, she says, her one-minute video, The Years Are Short, resonates most with people. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

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