I don’t know which is stranger – that people like this book, or that it was written in the first place. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her family. Gretchen Rubin started her career in law, and she realized she wanted to be a writer while she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. She has been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work reported on in a medical journal, been written up in the New Yorker, and been an answer on Jeopardy! As the founder of The Happiness Project, she has helped create imaginative products for people to use in their own happiness projects.

She’s the host of the popular, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she and her co-host (and sister) Elizabeth Craft explore strategies and insights about how to make life happier. Her latest book is Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World. Her previous books include the #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, as well as the bestselling books Better Than Before, Happier at Home, The Four Tendencies, and Outer Order, Inner Calm. She currently lives in New York City.Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She is the host of the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen Rubin is a blogger and the author of The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, Better than Before, The Four Tendencies, and Outer Order, Inner Calm. The things that go wrong often make the best memories. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself. One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. The days are long, but the years are short. 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.

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. “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. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 15 minutes

The happiness project by gretchen rubin