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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
I'm already on the gratitude bandwagon, so I didn't need convincing, but reading this definitely gave me continued motivation to keep a gratitude practice going. The biggest insight I'm going to apply to my own life is to be grateful for my job (and my spouse's). It can fade into the background, but there really are so many things to love about the work we do, and remembering them will make work a more joy-filled part of our lives.
reflective
slow-paced
Too many name drops and out of touch with the real world
While I agree with the concept that gratitude improves lives, I might have gotten more out of this book had the author been more cognizant of her privilege.
Until tonight when I went to write this review, I actually thought this was the second Gratitude book I had read. But it turns out that was actually about happiness and not gratitude ([b:Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life|13414599|Happier at Home Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life|Gretchen Rubin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1344014249s/13414599.jpg|18713712] ). Oh, okay, whoops. (I did read it 5 years ago!)
I'm not sure why this was on my to-read book, but I'm glad it was available on ebook when I was looking for something - this was so readable that it made my workout time fly by. Which doesn't necessarily happen!
She melds personal experience with research on gratitude, and applies it to her life. And while it's really readable and interesting, I kind of want to read a happiness/gratitude book that doesn't start from a happily employed, married white woman - I would be much more interested to see how this applied to someone who started with less right in their life. That said, I enjoyed reading it and probably should apply its lessons to my life.
I'm not sure why this was on my to-read book, but I'm glad it was available on ebook when I was looking for something - this was so readable that it made my workout time fly by. Which doesn't necessarily happen!
She melds personal experience with research on gratitude, and applies it to her life. And while it's really readable and interesting, I kind of want to read a happiness/gratitude book that doesn't start from a happily employed, married white woman - I would be much more interested to see how this applied to someone who started with less right in their life. That said, I enjoyed reading it and probably should apply its lessons to my life.
3.5 stars. Quite a bit of wisdom and research done, in true journalistic style. Goes beyond memoirs about happiness, but still is similar enough that if you've read too many of those you won't appreciate this book as much as you probably would if it was the first or even fifth book you've read on gratitude and positivity.
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Light hearted and not exactly ground breaking, but actually changed the way I move through my days, especially the tough ones. I am grateful to the author for her insights and explanations.
Good message. Good points and quotes. But after about 6 chapters, it got repetitive. Also, she is HUGELY privileged and it shows in the story. Her outlook on life is very much “It can’t possibly be that bad” but as a cis straight white woman married to a doctor and living in the US, she already has a leg up on a lot of people who don’t have life as good as she does.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
If this book had stopped about halfway through, I probably would have given it a higher rating. Kaplan is a good writer and she manages to mix in her personal anecdotes with fascinating interviews. I think my problem is that it started to seem a bit repetitive. She could have made her point without going into all the different areas where gratitude makes a difference (relationships, finance, health, fitness, consumerism and on and on).