Quicklet on Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project (CliffNotes-like Book Summary)
Book Details
Author(s)Winston Macallum
ISBN / ASINB007CE52XW
ISBN-13978B007CE52X8
Sales Rank1,576,712
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
ABOUT THE BOOK
Who doesn't want to be happy? While I wouldn't class myself as a miserable person (except maybe on Monday mornings), I believe that there are things that everyone can do to ramp up the notch on their happiness scale. Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun shows readers how to do exactly that.
A 12-month narrative on Rubin's attempt to be happier in every aspect of her life makes this a riveting read for anyone who has ever been told to 'turn that frown upside down.' Gretchen is effortlessly easy to agree with. I haven't made every change suggested in the book. For a start, I'm far too much of a night owl to consider going to bed early, which has a hand in my failure to make my bed first thing every morning. Oh, and my closets should be approached with caution for fear of causing an avalanche.
What I have taken to heart, however, is Rubin's take on relationships and parenthood. In adapting to life as a single mom, I've found this book indispensable. My walls are covered with projects, and we probably annoy all the neighbors by singing every morning, as Gretchen suggests. But I take great pleasure from knowing that my daughter will look back on her childhood and have only happy memories. This happiness thing, it's addictive.
MEET THE AUTHOR
The Hyperink Team works hard to bring you high-quality, engaging, fun content. If ever you have any questions about our products, or suggestions for how we can make them better, please don't hesitate to contact us!
Happy reading!
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun (hereafter referred to as The Happiness Project) was published in March 2011, reaching #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
The book came about as a result of an epiphany on a cross-town bus in 2006, when Rubin realized that one of the main things she wanted from life was to be happy, yet she never spent any time actually thinking about how to achieve it. The idea for the The Happiness Project was born.
The book focuses on how it is possible to achieve greater happiness by taking small, yet concrete, steps during daily life. Covering everything from friendships to novel-writing and messy closets to exercise, and with a fresh and consistently compelling narrative, Rubin chronicles the year that she dedicated to becoming happy. She combines the wisdom of the ages with current scientific studies and throws in a little popular culture to test the studies and theories that claim to teach you how to be happy.
Buy a copy to keep reading!
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Quicklet On Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
+ Introduction
+ About Gretchen Rubin
+ About the Book
+ Overall Summary
+ ...and much more
Who doesn't want to be happy? While I wouldn't class myself as a miserable person (except maybe on Monday mornings), I believe that there are things that everyone can do to ramp up the notch on their happiness scale. Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun shows readers how to do exactly that.
A 12-month narrative on Rubin's attempt to be happier in every aspect of her life makes this a riveting read for anyone who has ever been told to 'turn that frown upside down.' Gretchen is effortlessly easy to agree with. I haven't made every change suggested in the book. For a start, I'm far too much of a night owl to consider going to bed early, which has a hand in my failure to make my bed first thing every morning. Oh, and my closets should be approached with caution for fear of causing an avalanche.
What I have taken to heart, however, is Rubin's take on relationships and parenthood. In adapting to life as a single mom, I've found this book indispensable. My walls are covered with projects, and we probably annoy all the neighbors by singing every morning, as Gretchen suggests. But I take great pleasure from knowing that my daughter will look back on her childhood and have only happy memories. This happiness thing, it's addictive.
MEET THE AUTHOR
The Hyperink Team works hard to bring you high-quality, engaging, fun content. If ever you have any questions about our products, or suggestions for how we can make them better, please don't hesitate to contact us!
Happy reading!
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun (hereafter referred to as The Happiness Project) was published in March 2011, reaching #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
The book came about as a result of an epiphany on a cross-town bus in 2006, when Rubin realized that one of the main things she wanted from life was to be happy, yet she never spent any time actually thinking about how to achieve it. The idea for the The Happiness Project was born.
The book focuses on how it is possible to achieve greater happiness by taking small, yet concrete, steps during daily life. Covering everything from friendships to novel-writing and messy closets to exercise, and with a fresh and consistently compelling narrative, Rubin chronicles the year that she dedicated to becoming happy. She combines the wisdom of the ages with current scientific studies and throws in a little popular culture to test the studies and theories that claim to teach you how to be happy.
Buy a copy to keep reading!
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Quicklet On Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
+ Introduction
+ About Gretchen Rubin
+ About the Book
+ Overall Summary
+ ...and much more
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