Gretchen Rubin’s year-long experiment to discover how to create true happiness. Drawing on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world examples, Rubin delivers an engaging, eminently relatable chronicle of transformation. This special 10^th Anniversary edition features a Conversation with Gretchen Rubin, Happiness Project Stories, a guide to creating your own happiness project, a list of dozens of free resources, and more.

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

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:

· An extensive new interview with the author

· Stories of other people’s life-changing happiness projects

· A resource guide to the dozens of free resources created for readers

· The Happiness Project Manifesto

· An excerpt from Gretchen Rubin’s bestselling book The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles that Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)

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File Size: 1974 KB
Print Length: 368 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062946676
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Anniversary edition (October 30, 2018)
Publication Date: October 30, 2018
Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B07CRQMQ17
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Screen Reader: Supported

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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,496 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #86 in Happiness
- #14 in Emotions & Mental Health
- #83 in Emotional Mental Health

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Average Human

Real title: “How I became a less-bored woman of privilege”

November 1, 2018

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Read this book for a Psychology seminar in college. We spent a lot of time critically analysing the methods used, as well as the author’s credibility. The whole book isn’t awful, but reading it is not a valuable way to spend your time. Ultimately, this book was written by an upper-class white female, and you can definitely tell from reading it.

Tl;dr: Don’t bother reading the book.

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Lynne Prestage

Painfully Boring

March 8, 2018

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Tried reading this book since it was a book club assignment. It was painfully boring. When I got to page 229 in the Kindle version the author outlined her new policy on reading..... "I did, however vow to stop reading books that I didn't enjoy." This was the first good advice I encountered in the book, so I stopped reading "this" book immediately.

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This month I read 10% Happier and The Happiness Project

December 18, 2016

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I've been reading two new non-fiction books a month all year, and each month there is a theme of sorts. This month I read 10% Happier and The Happiness Project. I really enjoyed the Happiness Project (actually, I enjoyed both) which surprised me as I was sure it would be corny and preachy. It was neither. It was simply the story of one person's journey - but with ideas of how you could take or leave parts of that journey for yourself. No "let me fix your life" no "this is the one way to do things" just - this is my experience and I want to share it.

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Withyin

Thank you Gretchen: I can become happier not only for myself, but for people around me ...

December 30, 2018

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Finished listening to the audio version borrowed from my local library. Bought a paper copy for my daughter then bought a kindle version for myself so I can copy/paste quotes to the cards and texts to my daughter.
The book makes me understand the one star reviewers’ unhappiness and the unhappy effect they made on people around them and spread by their reviews, and I am sincerely sorry for them. It is easy to be heavy (or negative) and it is hard to be light (happy and to make people around you happy). Thank you Gretchen for all your efforts to become more agreeable, more loving (to your children, husband, friends, strangers, etc.). You showed me how to become a happy person not for the sake of myself’s happiness but also for the sake of my children, my family, my friends, and the world.

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DJHIndy

Only read this if you are serious about finding your way to happiness...

October 18, 2017

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I avoided this book for a long time, but it was recommended to me by someone who has real challenges in her life, and I wondered why she found encouragement in it. In someone else’s hands, this whole concept could have been trite and silly, but Gretchen Rubin’s approach to defining and working through her kinks and quirks to achieve happiness by living better in her own skin is illuminating, instructive, entertaining and thought-provoking. Her resolutions, her challenges, her wins and failures are the same as ours, but her deliberate and focused framework and markers and her study of the topic of happiness lends credence to the value of focusing on even our smallest improvements in our actions, attitudes and behavior as a way to improve our own lives, our family’s lives and our community. A realistic, genuinely practical (but not easy), lifelong approach to making the constant adjustments we know we need to be our best selves.

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tessa eastman

More like a diary of an upper middle class mother then ...

April 10, 2018

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I was not impressed. More like a diary of an upper middle class mother then a self help book. I was expecting more solid take aways and enlightenment, so perhaps by expectations were wrong.

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CC Thomas

Make Yourself Truly Happy and Buy Another Book

April 7, 2015

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Self-help is a new genre before, one I hadn't needed and didn't particularly want to try. However, the buzz generated over this book captured me. I read reviews and interviews with people who said the book changed their way in some profound and meaningful way.

I have one question to ask those people: How?

The book is divided into 12 different chapters, one for each month of the year whereby the author dedicates that month to changing something in her life: career, marriage, children etc. Overall, it sounds like a great idea. However, the "advice" generated in the book is alarming. Her big marriage advice was to treat her husband "nicer". If you are shallow enough to not already treat your spouse nicely, I doubt your marriage will be saved by the book. As for children...apparently, the lesson is don't let their whining annoy you. As a mother of two, good luck with that and that came with the program, so suck it up. The whole book just seemed so ridiculous to me. I can't think of one piece of advice I gleaned that wouldn't be so obviously apparent for anyone with an ounce of self-reflection.

What bothered me most of all about this book is the obvious attempt just to sell. The author is very clear about her purpose in writing to be just to sell books. So, in this book, she gathered all her blog entries from other readers and tacked them in. Not all the entries were relevant or interesting and it just felt like an attempt to make the book thicker. There are also lots of quotes and "studies" about happiness, more obvious attempts to fill the pages with something relevant. The title kind of got my goat, too. A year trying to fight right? Can't recall an instance where the author was really focused on anything other than her own selfish pursuits. Read Aristotle? Not a chapter in the book so I'm not sure how it made it to the title other than to make the book seem more worthy.

You want some happiness? Save the money you would normally spend on this book and look elsewhere. Buy yourself a latte, a bouquet of flowers, take your spouse or boyfriend out for a hot dog, buy a stranger some balloons...

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Margaret Schlachter

Loved the book and found parallels to my own life ...

July 4, 2016

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I bought the book but ended up listening to a copy of the audiobook. Loved the book and found parallels to my own life and my own journey. While the book was more of a memoir than I thought it would be I found myself more energized to take on my own happiness project after the finishing the book.

I found myself tidying my house, decluttering my clothing and generally being more kind to those I love around me. Thanks for the boost and injection of energy to chase after my own goals and projects.

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