🎙 INTERVIEW: Self-Knowledge & the Creative Life w/ Gretchen Rubin
​** This is a LIVE interview with author Gretchen Rubin about the craft of writing and reality of building a writing career. Attendees will be sent a recording after the interview. **
​How can we know ourselves better? And how might that self-knowledge unlock deeper joy, focus, and creative flow?
​Gretchen Rubin has spent decades exploring these questions. A New York Times bestselling author, podcaster, and speaker, Gretchen is a beloved voice on happiness, habits, and human nature. She’s known for turning abstract ideas into beautifully practical insights, offering readers tools to better understand themselves and build sustainable, meaningful lives.
​Join us for a conversation with Gretchen as we explore the power of self-knowledge, how to build habits that support a creative practice, and the story behind her newest book Secrets of Adulthood—a collection of simple truths for our complex lives.Â
​We’ll explore:
​The habits that support creative consistency
​How knowing ourselves helps us create more sustainably
​How tuning into the senses can reawaken joy, presence, and inspiration
​Gretchen’s own creative process, and what she’s learned from a life of deep observation
​About Gretchen RubinÂ
​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 convey complex ideas—from science to literature to stories from her own life—with levity and clarity.
​She’s the author of many bestselling books, such as The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, Life in Five Senses and The Four Tendencies, which have sold millions of copies in more than thirty languages. Her most recent book is Secrets of Adulthood.
​She’s also host of the popular podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, and founder of award-winning Happier app, which helps people track their happiness-boosting habits.
​Gretchen Rubin has been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work reported on in a medical journal, been written up in the New Yorker, and been an answer on Jeopardy! After starting her career in law, she realized she wanted to be a writer while she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her family.
​Your London Writers' Salon Hosts:
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​Parul Bavishi and Matt Trinetti are the co-founders of the London Writers' Salon, creators of the webby-nominated Writers' Hour daily writing sessions, and hosts of the London Writers' Salon podcast.
​Parul Bavishi has been an editor for over a decade. In addition to running LWS she helps thriller, YA and non-fiction writers level up their craft and get published. She writes and edits for the Story Grid. She has worked as an editor and literary scout at Random House, Quercus & Eccles Fisher. She analyses TV hit shows (Killing Eve, Ozark, Game of Thrones) on the Story Grid Showrunners Podcast.
​Matt Trinetti is a writer, publisher, TEDx speaker, and facilitator. In addition to running LWS, Matt designs programs to help unfulfilled professionals pursue creative work, start businesses, and reinvent their careers. Matt's work has appeared in Quartz, Observer, Creative Mornings, and on his blog GiveLiveExplore.
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