Happiness Project. The 10th Anniversary Edition

Zusatztext With her characteristic mix of delightful charm, thoughtful research, and insightful advice Gretchen Rubin shows how to add fun, joy, and harmony to your home life. Informationen zum Autor I'm the author of the New York Times bestsellers "The Happiness Project," Happier at Home and Better Than Before. I write about my experiences as I test-drive the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about happiness, habits, and human nature. My next book will hit the shelves in summer 2017: The Four Tendencies: The Surprising Truth about the Four Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do . Find out your Tendencyare you an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, or Rebel?when you take the free quiz at GretchenRubin.com. Subscribe to my award-winning weekly podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin (more than 1 million downloads each month) and hear my sister and I discuss strategies and tips for how to make your daily life happier. I also created an app to help people harness the power of the Four Tendencies. Learn more at BetterApp.us or search the app store for Better Gretchen Rubin. My previous books include a bestselling biography of Winston Churchill, "Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill, and one of John Kennedy, Forty Ways to Look at JFK. My first book, Power Money Fame S..: A User's Guide, is social criticism in the guise of a user's manual. I wrote Profane Waste in collaboration with artist Dana Hoey. I've also written three dreadful novels that are safely locked away in a drawer. Before turning to writing, I had a career in law. A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School, I clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. I live in New York City with my husband and two daughters. Klappentext 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 accountnow updated with new material by the authorRubin 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. This updated edition includes: A new extensive interview with the author A guide to dozens of free resources for readers The Happiness Project Manifesto An excerpt from Gretchen Rubin's bestselling book The Four Tendencies Zusammenfassung 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! eminen...

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I'm the author of the New York Times bestsellers "The Happiness Project," “Happier at Home” and “Better Than Before.” I write about my experiences as I test-drive the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about happiness, habits, and human nature. My next book will hit the shelves in summer 2017: “The Four Tendencies: The Surprising Truth about the Four Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do.”

Find out your Tendency—are you an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, or Rebel?—when you take the free quiz at GretchenRubin.com.

Subscribe to my award-winning weekly podcast “Happier with Gretchen Rubin” (more than 1 million downloads each month) and hear my sister and I discuss strategies and tips for how to make your daily life happier. I also created an app to help people harness the power of the Four Tendencies. Learn more at BetterApp.us or search the app store for “Better Gretchen Rubin.”

My previous books include a bestselling biography of Winston Churchill, "Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill,” and one of John Kennedy, “Forty Ways to Look at JFK.” My first book, “Power Money Fame S..: A User's Guide,” is social criticism in the guise of a user's manual. I wrote “Profane Waste” in collaboration with artist Dana Hoey. I've also written three dreadful novels that are safely locked away in a drawer.

Before turning to writing, I had a career in law. A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School, I clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. I live in New York City with my husband and two daughters.

 

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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—now updated with new material by the author—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.

This updated edition includes:

A new extensive interview with the author

A guide to dozens of free resources for readers

The Happiness Project Manifesto

An excerpt from Gretchen Rubin’s bestselling book The Four Tendencies

Résumé

"Aided by her formidable intelligence and willingness to try anything, she spent a year road-testing every theory about happiness she could get her hands on, using her own life as the road." - Time

"Happiness is contagious. And so is The Happiness Project. Once you've read Gretchen Rubin's tale of a year searching for satisfaction, you'll want to start your own happiness project and get your friends and family to join you. This is the rare book that will make you both smile and think-often on the same page." - Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind

"Rubin had learned that there was a close correlation between habits and happiness, so she figured out how we form them, use them, and change them. Once I came to understand habits as harnessing our own laziness-making a habit frees you from decision-making, which you can use to your advantage-my relationship to them changed permanently." - New Yorker

"Lays out life's essential goals... serves as a kind of detailed instruction manual on how to achieve them." - New York Times Book Review

"If anyone can help us stop procrastinating, start exercising or get organized, it's Gretchen Rubin. The happiness guru takes a sledgehammer to old-fashioned no…