LibraryAware The Happiness Project

DECEMBER 2022

The Happiness Project : Or, why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun
by Gretchen Rubin

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, Rubin 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. Among other things, she found that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that money can help buy happiness, when spent wisely; that outer order contributes to inner calm; and that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference.

Genre: Autobiographies; Family & Relationships; Life stories
Tone: Funny; Reflective
Writing Style: Candid;

Engaging

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Also by Gretchen Rubin:

Better than before
by Gretchen Craft Rubin

The best-selling author of The Happiness Project outlines a scientific framework for understanding and developing positive habits, offering dozens of proven, customizable strategies based in self awareness. Discussion guide available online.

Outer order, inner calm : Declutter & organize to make more room for happiness
by Gretchen Rubin

The best-selling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project reveals the link between external order and inner calm, listing more than 150 customizable ideas for minimizing clutter to promote better productivity, creativity and energy.

The four tendencies : the indispensable personality profiles that reveal how to make your life better (and other people's lives better, too)
by Gretchen Rubin

The best-selling author of The Happiness Project continues her investigation into human nature by identifying four key personality types that shape every aspect of behavior, explaining how to gain better understandings about each personality's strengths and vulnerabilities for better decision-making, reduced stress and more effective communication.

Happier at home : kiss more, jump more, abandon a project, read Samuel Johnson, and my other experiments in the practice of everyday life
by Gretchen Rubin

Recounts the author's efforts to render her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love, discussing how she experimented with a range of concrete resolutions and came to redefine her views about family, time, and material comforts.

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