A review by ktbroski
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

1.0

I'm really trying hard to understand this book. It was heavily recommended to me, but I feel like it's one of the worst self-help books? How to achieve happiness is to spend money, stop drinking, don't gossip, change your diet, and exercise? I know that is just her experience in her journey but I feel like she never talked about roots of any problems. A majority of the book are not practices I will be applying to my life. The beginning was rough, when she was discussing her and her husband's relationship, now she just lets everything go? Like she would want to say something snappy/without thinking but then just kept it to herself instead. I feel like that is just internalizing everything and not how to cope with it and correct the problem? I know this is gonna sound like I'm some bitter unhappy person leaving this review in a book about being more happy but I really don't feel like this has helped me in any way. Her website/resources are also hard to use and find