The Happiness Project
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A thoughtful and prescriptive work on happiness filled with practical advice, sharp insight, charm, and humor.
or, why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun
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How To Be Happy: THE HAPPINESS PROJECT
THE HAPPINESS PROJECT author Gretchen Rubin joins a life coach, a managing editor of a magazine, a woman who has started her own happiness project, and one angry comedian in a discussion of her book. Is happiness lost once you start contemplating it? Are you selfish if you seek out how to be happier? Find out what this episode's BOOKD Club has to say. Gretchen Rubin is a luminary writer on the subject of happiness. She has another book on the subject, HAPPIER AT HOME (http://goo.gl/9ZAbw), hitting the shelves on September 4th, 2012. Check out her blog, where she continues to experiment daily with theories on how to be happier: happiness-project.com/
How To Be Happy: THE HAPPINESS PROJECT
THE HAPPINESS PROJECT author Gretchen Rubin joins a life coach, a managing editor of a magazine, a woman who has started her own happiness project, and one angry comedian in a discussion of her book. Is happiness lost once you start contemplating it? Are you selfish if you seek out how to be happier? Find out what this episode's BOOKD Club has to say. Gretchen Rubin is a luminary writer on the subject of happiness. She has another book on the subject, HAPPIER AT HOME (http://goo.gl/9ZAbw), hitting the shelves on September 4th, 2012. Check out her blog, where she continues to experiment daily with theories on how to be happier: happiness-project.com/
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Add a CommentDidn't Gretchen Rubin's family profit from the global economic meltdown? Isn't she therefore a purveyor of unhappiness to many, many others?
I like stunt fiction. And annual projects. So this book really was a win for me.
Just skimmed this book and didn't find it very interesting. Not highly recommended.
worth to try our own happiness project
This book helped me learn how to eliminate clutter from my room. I'm kind of a pack rat and it really was a great guide for letting go of useless stuff. There are instances where certain chapters may not apply to every reader but the author makes every effort to have a least some parts of it to apply to anyone's life.
This will give me a lot to think about for awhile....
I struggle with it. I do think there is a lot of food for thought, and for that, I appreciate her perspective. I also believe she has more hours in her day than I do. I am a stay at home mom and this book exhausts me.
Pretty good read with great ideas, however as the author stated near the beginning, her experience is very different from other's experiences and in a way she cannot connect with many people as she has never had a huge tragic problem. For those of us without children a whole chapter is almost irrelevant.
Just your very average woman with a Yale law degree, excellent career, wealthy husband, fancy New York apartment, and cute kids, helping you find simple ways to happiness. Decent advice for people with FiWoProblems.
After hearing Gretchen Ruben interviewed on a talk show, I decided to give her book a chance. I expected one of those flimsy, dime-a-dozen self-help books. Since I am retired and very happy, I did not expect to learn a whole lot. I was, however, pleasantly surprised and fascinated to read about the author's year-long process to become happier. It made me realize that even I. Retirement, I should still set goals to ensure that I continue to be happy. This book is highly recommended for people in their twenties and thirties since it can give them a lot of personal insight. A good book.