Skip to content

- Author: Gretchen Rubin
- Full Title: Better Than Before
- Category: #books
- people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did.… people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.”
- In other words, habits eliminate the need for self-control.
- the real key to habits is decision making—or, more accurately, the lack of decision making. A habit requires no decision from me, because I’ve already decided.
- I shouldn’t worry about making healthy choices. I should make one healthy choice, and then stop choosing.
- While I’m not much different from other people, those differences are very important.