[Book] Better Then Before - Mastering the habits of our everyday lives (Gretchen Rubin)

1. Decide not to decide

2. Self-knowledge 

-The four tendencies 

(1) Upholders respond readily to both outer expectations and inner expectations.

(2) Questioners question all expectation, and will meet an expectation only if they believe it's justified.

(3) Obligers respond readily to outer expectations but struggle to meet inner expectations 

(4) Rebels resist all expectations, outer and inner alike.

-Different solutions for different people

(1) Am I a lark or an owl? 

(2) Am I a marathoner, a sprinter, or a procrastinator?

(3) Am I an underbuyer or an overbuyer?

(4) Am I a simplicity lover or an abundance lover?

(5) Am I a finisher or an opener?

(6) Am I familiarity lover or a novelty lover? depends~

(7) Am I promotion-focused or prevention-focused?

(8) Do I like to take small steps or big step? : i know that I need to take small steps, but looking back, i was the girl who always do big steps.

3. Pillars of habits

(1) Monitoring: We manage what we monitor

A Key step for the strategy of monitoring is to identify precisely what action is monitored.

"When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind."

 

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