Rubin's Better Than Before

Better than before is a self help book that's main purpose is to teach people how to change their lives by changing your habits. By establishing good habits and ending your bad ones you live a more organized and productive life. In Rubin’s words “ Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life”. We repeat about 40% of our behavior daily and these repeated activities are based on the habits that we’ve accumulated during our lifetime. By changing them you’re literally changing a fundamental part of your life. The author also points out that “Habits make change possible by freeing us from decision making and from using self-control”. With habits you manage to subconsciously accomplish goals and other tasks without mentally putting in much effort because you're already in the habit of doing so.
She notes that everyone forms or breaks habits differently based on how they respond to inner and outer expectations so she categorizes people into four groups or tendencies. The first group is Upholders who meet both outer and inner expectations. The next is rebels, who resist both outer and inner expectations. The last two are Questionners who respond well to inner expectations but not to outer ones and Obligers, who don't respond well to inner expectations but do respond well to outer ones. The author gives the characteristics of each tendency and shows which techniques are best for each type of person.One example of her habit techniques is “Habit Stacking” which consists of grouping a new habit that you want to develope with one that is already established. For example you can say after I take my morning shower I will do 10 pushups. You’ll be more likely to stick to the new habit since you're already use to the old