Rubin's books have sold more than two million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project. Rubin is a writer on subjects of habits, happiness, and human nature. She has also been a lecturer at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management. After her clerkships, she served as a chief adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor from 1995 to 1996. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then on the U.S. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University, was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and won the Edgar M. Gretchen Rubin's passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire you to start your own happiness project.Gretchen Craft Rubin (born December 14, 1965) is an American author, blogger and speaker.īorn Gretchen Anne Craft, Gretchen Rubin grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where her father was a lawyer at the firm of Craft, Fridkin & Rhyne. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her-and what didn't.Her conclusions are sometimes surprising-she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness that 'treating' yourself can make you feel worse that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference-and they range from the practical to the profound.Written with charm and wit, The Happiness Project is illuminating yet entertaining, thought-provoking yet compulsively readable.

Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. With humor and insight, she 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.Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to instead she focused on improving her life as it was. '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 of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. '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.

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