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The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun Paperback – December 29, 2015

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“This book made me happy in the first five pages.” —AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

Award-winning author Gretchen Rubin is back with a bang, with The Happiness Project. The author of the bestselling 40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill has produced a work that is “a cross between the Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love.” (Sonya Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want) In the vein of Julie and Julia, The Happiness Project describes one person’s year-long attempt to discover what leads to true contentment. Drawing at once on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world applicability, Rubin has written an engaging, eminently relatable chronicle of transformation.

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Starred Review. Rubin is not an unhappy woman: she has a loving husband, two great kids and a writing career in New York City. Still, she could-and, arguably, should-be happier. Thus, her methodical (and bizarre) happiness project: spend one year achieving careful, measurable goals in different areas of life (marriage, work, parenting, self-fulfillment) and build on them cumulatively, using concrete steps (such as, in January, going to bed earlier, exercising better, getting organized, and "acting more energetic"). By December, she's striving bemusedly to keep increasing happiness in every aspect of her life. The outcome is good, not perfect (in accordance with one of her "Secrets of Adulthood": "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good"), but Rubin's funny, perceptive account is both inspirational and forgiving, and sprinkled with just enough wise tips, concrete advice and timely research (including all those other recent books on happiness) to qualify as self-help. Defying self-help expectations, however, Rubin writes with keen senses of self and narrative, balancing the personal and the universal with a light touch. Rubin's project makes curiously compulsive reading, which is enough to make any reader happy. --This text refers to the Audible Audio Edition edition.

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“An enlightening, laugh-aloud read. . . . Filled with open, honest glimpses into [Rubin’s] real life, woven together with constant doses of humor.” (Terry Hong, Christian Science Monitor)

“For those who generally loathe the self-help genre, Rubin’s 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)

“Packed with fascinating facts about the science of happiness and rich examples of how she improves her life through changes small and big The Happiness Project made me happier by just reading it.” (Amy Scribner, Bookpage)

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Revised ed. edition (December 29, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062414852
ISBN-13: 978-0062414854
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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It's okay, like a personal journal of her own exploration. Not deep enough or offer great wisdom.

ByCW from CAon June 4, 2017

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It's okay. A personal journal type of her own exploration yet not deep in revelation or offering great wisdom. She will very often write "study shows....." (almost every other pages at least), however, not showing where the source of her quote is from. After a while, you wonder if it was her just talking with her friends versus from trustworthy studies. This is when I lost interests in reading more.

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brilliant book

ByBe Happyon March 9, 2014

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this was an amazing book.
the basic premise is that the author recognizes 12 main aspects of her life to work upon to be happier and then alots of month for each. she then goes about reading all she can about those aspects like work, parenting, relationships, etc and then implementing those strategies and researches on herself.
if you want to read a book on happiness then just get this and you will get all the knowledge you want to know.
small contract - the last few chapters somehow didn't feel as meaty as the earlier ones. In fact the middle chapters were the most meaty one's and the last few chapters felt almost as fillers. that none the less doesn't take even a smidge of the book.
and lastly I do wish the author had given meditation a more real try . It is life changing and millions swear by it/.b but again that doesn't take a thing away from this great book and I whole heartedly recommend it.

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I really loved this book!!

Byhollidaisyon July 11, 2017

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At first I was skeptical because I'm not a fan of self-help books or most non-fiction, but Rubin's writing style was so approachable. It read more like a novel and it wasn't really a self-help book at all, although I do feel like it has and will continue to help me be better. In many ways, I related to Rubin and I'm sure that helped with my enjoyment. I want to go back and read it again already and start figuring out some of my own resolutions!

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Best Self-Improvement Book

ByBuckledaeon June 20, 2017

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I loved reading "The Happiness Project", and I'm already reading through it a second time, so I can work on applying several of Rubin's different ideas. I really like how one can just pick this book up and pretty much start anywhere. Her ideas are backed by in depth research, and she provides great details from her personal experience going through this happiness project. I plan on purchasing her next book. If you like self-improvement books, read this one.

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full of wonderful ideas and research

ByThinkingon May 11, 2014

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The Happiness project reads like a personal development book, a journal and a blog all at once. At the same time it is full of excellent research and references. It is easy to read and inspiring. I can't wait to get started on my Happiness Project.

Con- The author is a highly educated, highly successful, upper middle class, urban dwelling white American female, who does not seem to have a very complicated/challenging upbringing, marriage, or other obviously serious life challenges, so for some people it might be challenging to relate to her. What helps is that she is very candid about her position in life and the fact that she may not be dealing with the most serious challenges and she comes across very authentic which helps take her more seriously. T
hat being said, the book is full of good research and the writing style is easy to read and I believe this book would be beneficial to most readers.

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A great conversation starter.

ByKate Campbellon September 18, 2016

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It's Gretchen's journey, but it does make you think of your own. Not so much a self help book, but one to help broaden perspective. I took it on vacation and although I barely had time to read it, by leaving the book laying around, I saw many of my family members pick it up, then browse through it. It helped start the conversation of what makes people happy. Family was the universal answer BTW.

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Second Read

ByLindaon May 22, 2017

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This is my second time to read and consider Gretchen Rubin's purposeful efforts to generate more happiness in her life! I can so relate to many of the strategies she uses! I'm eager to check out her resources included on her website and thoroughly enjoy her podcast! I will continue to share this book with others!

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Turned my life around?

ByBettson October 14, 2014

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We have heard that so often that it no longer is taken seriously, and I don't want to say it here, but this book really did have a significant impact on my happiness and perspectives. Groaning when this book was chosen by one of my book club members, as I did not want to read another "self help" book, I grudgingly ordered and began reading. I had gotten into a gloomy, grumpy place in my life, but not not all that bad. Just a bad attitude really, but the first chapter got my attention. Yes, it talked to me and my relationship with my husband. It wasn't bad really, but I started applying some of the approaches in the chapter and I could not believe the change in my husband. Wow! And the change in my husband then affected MY happiness! Onward through the book I went and started applying things to EVERY part of my life, including my business, with good to great results.

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