Is It Possible to Make Ourselves Happier? By doing all of this, you'll be a step closer to answering your own questions about happiness and how to begin your Happiness Project. Furthermore, we'll delve into a wide range of traditions, from the familiar to the esoteric. We'll look at the fundamentals of happiness, focusing on our vitality, and how social ties and spirituality help boost happiness. And, because we don't have all year, we'll just explore three key lessons from the book. We'll briefly cover the basic steps of Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project. She suggests that we focus on what we can do daily, in our busy lives, to lay a foundation for more moments of happiness. Rubin's primary concern is less to do with the age-old question, "what is happiness?" and more to do with the pragmatics around happiness. And although everyone's Happiness Project will be unique, there's great value in learning about another's idiosyncratic path towards happiness. So, how might someone else's "Happiness Project," apply to our life's journey? Rubin hopes that reading an account of her Happiness Project, will inspire us to start our own. We might think that happiness is subjective, and that everyone's pursuit of happiness is different. She then realized that 'The days are long, but the years are short.' Sitting on the bus that day, she grasped two things: she wasn't as happy as she could be, and her life wasn't going to change unless she made it change. Rubin had an epiphany on one rainy Tuesday afternoon in the unlikeliest of places (a city bus). She wondered how, if at all possible, she could invite more happiness into her life. Sidonie Colette said, 'What a wonderful life if only I had realized it sooner.' These words struck our author, and made her reflect deeply on her own happiness.
This stunt-genre-style book, chronicles the twelve-month adventure of test-driving the wisdom of the ages, historical lore, cutting-edge scientific research, lessons from popular culture, and good old common-sense about how to be happier. The Happiness Project shows that you don't have to give your life a complete overhaul searching for happiness.It's the culmination of an idea – a year-long "Happiness Project," where Rubin dedicated each month to a theme, to allow more happiness into her life.
We may find that, as Wordsworth once wrote, we're "surprised by joy." However, what lawyer turned author, Gretchin Rubin proposes in The Happiness Project, is that instead of searching for happiness, we become more open to life's joyful moments. The paradox of happiness is that the more you chase it, the more elusive it becomes.
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