A review by writesdave
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 by Gretchen Rubin

challenging emotional hopeful informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

It was odd to read this 15-year-old book about happiness having read more recently the work of Stulberg and Magness on the fool's errand of pursuing happiness, but Rubin did her homework and offers actionable suggestions to improving one's life. Wide swathes of it are devoted to happiness within marriage and parenthood, which doesn't apply to me, but anyone can find good stuff here.

Personally, I think I realized that I want to pursue contentment, moment to moment rather than an overarching happiness in all matters. So thanks for helping me clear that up, Ms. Rubin.