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Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier.
Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to; instead she focused on improving her life as it was. Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her—and what didn't.
Her conclusions are sometimes surprising—she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely; that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that "treating" yourself can make you feel worse; that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them; that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference—and they range from the practical to the profound.
Written with charm and wit, The Happiness Project is illuminating yet entertaining, thought-provoking yet compulsively readable. Gretchen Rubin's passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire you to start your own happiness project.
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±1±: Best Buy Gretchen Rubin feels a general sense of malaise with her life, leading up to some sort of midlife crisis. Thus, she decides on a new undertaking, researching ways that she can make herself happy. She decides to work on several different resolutions, picking a new one for each month and crafting her own "splendid truths."
I really enjoyed following along Rubin's journey from January all the way until December. Most of her resolutions are ones that I wish that I had the heart to follow myself. I want to pursue my passions and be a better person by not snapping at people all the time. At the same time, there is a certain philosophical view of being happy, whether trying to measure happiness will change one's happiness somehow, or if even things and resolutions can truly lead to happiness rather than a happy moment.
At the core, though, I feel like Rubin's happiness project really tells of a story of a woman who breaks from the mold of her life and dares to try new things in order to feel better. To me, that goal is quite worthy of a year's worth of work and it has inspired me to attempt my own happiness project. I would highly recommend this book, both for the inspiration that comes out of it and for the actual memoir itself. Rubin writes well and I find it interesting to read about her life and the changes that happen through her happiness project. on Sale!
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