Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany. One rainy afternoon on a city bus, she realized that she wasn't as happy as she could be. In danger of wasting her days - always yearning for something more, waiting for problems to miraculously solve themselves - she realized her life wasn't going to change unless she did something about it. On January 1, she embarked on her Happiness Project, and each month she pursued a different set of resolutions: to get more sleep, quit nagging her husband, sing in the morning to her two young daughters, start a blog, imitate a spiritual master, keep a one-sentence journal. She immersed herself in everything from classical philosophy to contemporary psychology to see what worked for her-and what didn't. Illuminating yet entertaining, profound yet compulsively readable, "The Happiness Project" is one of the most thoughtful and prescriptive works on happiness to have emerged from the recent explosion of interest in the subject. Filled with practical advice, sharp insight, charm, and humour, her story will inspire readers to navigate their own paths to happiness.
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'Two kids, a career, a good marriage... Gretchen Rubin...had all the boxes ticked - but still felt incomplete. Which is why she devoted a year to trying to get happy...But that's the nature of The Happiness Project - everyone is different - and by the end of the year I had learned to change my life by finding more happiness in it...'
--Grazia, April 5, 2010
For those who generally loathe the self-help genre, Rubins book is a breath of peppermint-scented air. Well-researched and sharply written. . . . Rubin takes an orderly, methodical approach to forging her own path to a happier state of mind. --Kim Crow, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Practical and never preachy . . . the rare self-help tome that doesn t feel shameful to read. --Daily Beast
--Grazia, April 5, 2010
For those who generally loathe the self-help genre, Rubins book is a breath of peppermint-scented air. Well-researched and sharply written. . . . Rubin takes an orderly, methodical approach to forging her own path to a happier state of mind. --Kim Crow, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Practical and never preachy . . . the rare self-help tome that doesn t feel shameful to read. --Daily Beast
About the Author
Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the bestselling Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK. Her daily blog, www.happiness-project.com, ranks in the prestigious Technorati "Top 5K" and appears on Slate and the Huffington Post. Rubin started her career as a lawyer, and she was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when she realised she really wanted to be a writer. She lives in New York City with her husband and two young daughters.
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62 of 66 people found the following review helpful
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I've enjoyed Gretchen Rubin's blog for many months now so was excited to hear about her book. And when I read it? Utterly brilliant. Really! The book is not just the blog printed out; it's a whole different thing.
She writes SO well, such a warm and engaging and personal style. (I'm tempted to read the biographies she'd written before this, even though I wouldn't normally read biographies, just because she writes so well.)
And the content? Fascinating! Trying out lots of things with an open mind, things that others say will make you happy and seeing what it's like.
I can't praise this book highly enough. It's the best book I've read for a long time, fiction or non-fiction. It made me happy just to read it!
And at the end of it? I'm thinking about what makes me happy and how I can try out some of her ideas for myself. And if a book changes how you think or behave, then it's a Very Good Book.
I do hope someone else discovers what a great book this is because of what I'm writing here. That would make me very happy too!
She writes SO well, such a warm and engaging and personal style. (I'm tempted to read the biographies she'd written before this, even though I wouldn't normally read biographies, just because she writes so well.)
And the content? Fascinating! Trying out lots of things with an open mind, things that others say will make you happy and seeing what it's like.
I can't praise this book highly enough. It's the best book I've read for a long time, fiction or non-fiction. It made me happy just to read it!
And at the end of it? I'm thinking about what makes me happy and how I can try out some of her ideas for myself. And if a book changes how you think or behave, then it's a Very Good Book.
I do hope someone else discovers what a great book this is because of what I'm writing here. That would make me very happy too!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Hattie_PLU
Format:Paperback
I bought The Happiness Project in New York on a final shopping trip before jumping in our car out the JFK...by the time we landed in Heathrow I'd finished it!
The Happiness Project is an account of Gretchen Rubin's year long journey to discover happiness and find pleasure in small aspects of life. Each chapter chronicles a month in Gretchen's happiness project and explores a different resolution for happiness from remembering love to whether money can buy happiness. There's a great philosophical basis to the book which blends seamlessly with honest and detailed personal thoughts and anecdotes that really bring tests of happiness to life.
Rubin is neither sanctimonious nor prescriptive about what happiness will be to others and that is what makes The Happiness Project is a really top class read and awesome book. Following Gretchen's suggestion I created my own happiness project and have applied small but powerful changes to my life which do give me pleasure each and every day.
I cannot recommend this book enough to other readers...every home should have a copy and everyone should have their own personal happiness project!
Still reading? What are you waiting for? Got on and bag your copy! Enjoy!
The Happiness Project is an account of Gretchen Rubin's year long journey to discover happiness and find pleasure in small aspects of life. Each chapter chronicles a month in Gretchen's happiness project and explores a different resolution for happiness from remembering love to whether money can buy happiness. There's a great philosophical basis to the book which blends seamlessly with honest and detailed personal thoughts and anecdotes that really bring tests of happiness to life.
Rubin is neither sanctimonious nor prescriptive about what happiness will be to others and that is what makes The Happiness Project is a really top class read and awesome book. Following Gretchen's suggestion I created my own happiness project and have applied small but powerful changes to my life which do give me pleasure each and every day.
I cannot recommend this book enough to other readers...every home should have a copy and everyone should have their own personal happiness project!
Still reading? What are you waiting for? Got on and bag your copy! Enjoy!
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By rollerskate
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Format:Hardcover
This is not a guide for beating depression, but a great place to find ideas to bring a bit more happiness into your life. The author did not start off unhappy, but in that rut most of us get to from time to time. A great guide to reinvigorating your life and relationships, and adding a spring to your step. Not everything in this book will suit everyone, but there are enough ideas here to give everyone a good choice of ideas. A good book to keep by your bedside to go back to every now and then.
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