We had a packed interview on July 29, 2011 with best-selling author,
Gretchen Rubin, whose book The
Happiness Project details the year she spent test-driving studies
and theories about how to be happier.
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ABOUT GRETCHEN RUBIN
Gretchen Rubin is the author of The Happiness Project,
an instant and #1
New York Times bestseller. Filled with practical advice, sharp insight,
charm, and humor, The Happiness Project is both illuminating and entertaining.
Gretchen also writes a popular blog, The
Happiness Project in which she reports on her daily adventures in
the pursuit of happiness.
Gretchen has a wide, enthusiastic following. Happiness
Project groups have sprung up from Los Angeles to Enid, Oklahoma to
Boston, where people meet to discuss their own happiness projects. More
than a dozen blogs have been launched by people who are following Gretchen's
example.
Gretchen Rubin attended Yale College and Yale Law School,
edited the Yale Law Journal and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra
Day O'Connor. She is also the daughter-in-law of former treasury secretary
Robert E. Rubin.
Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with
her husband and two young daughters.
She says that her only hobbies are reading and writing--and
helping other people clean out their closets.
Gretchen's inspiration to write her international bestseller
The Happiness Project came to her as she was on a bus with one
of her children: Gretchen says, "A few years ago, I had an epiphany
on the cross-town bus. I asked myself, "What do I want from life,
anyway?" and I thought, "I want to be happy"--but I never
spent any time thinking about happiness. "I should do a happiness
project!" I realized. And so I have." FULL
TEXT
Rights for The Happiness Project have been sold
for 31 foreign editions.
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ABOUT GRETCHEN'S BOOK THE HAPPINESS PROJECT
In
a great review of
The Happiness Project, Bob Sutton writes:
"I wondered out to look at the mail, and there it
was, the result of Gretchen's Rubin's year long quest to make herself
happier. "The
Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing the Morning,
Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More
Fun." Frankly, perhaps because I was a psychology major for
ten years (through my PhD in Organizational Psychology), most self-help
books make me want to vomit. But once I started reading Gretchen's book,
I couldn't stop because -- unlike all those books that seem to tell
fake stories about others or promise too much or are too sappy -- Gretchen's
compelling voice, great stories, and first person-perspective (and brutal
self-assessments at times, few of us are as aware or as open about our
imperfections) make the book simply irresistible. . . .Full
review
"A cross between the Dalai Lama's The Art of Happiness
and Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, and seamlessly buttressed
by insights from sources as diverse as psychological scientists, novelists,
poets, and philosophers, Gretchen Rubin has written a book that readers
will revisit again and again as they seek to fulfill their own dreams
for happiness."
- Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., The How of Happiness: A Scientific
Approach to Getting the Life You Want
"This book made me happy in the first five pages.
And the more I read it, the happier I got. It's filled with great insights
that have changed every part of my life, from love to money, from work
to play, from writing to Diet Coke."
- A.J. Jacobs,The Year of Living Biblically and The
Guinea Pig Diaries
"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, A Whole New Mind
"The Happiness Project is a wonderful book. Gretchen
shows how you can be happier, starting right now, with small, actionable
steps accessible to everyone. Among her many attainable strategies,
her discovery of the connection between inner happiness and outer order
is spot on!"
- Julie Morgenstern, Organizing from the Inside Out and
SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life
BEN'S
INTERVIEW WITH GRETCHEN RUBIN
