Gretchen Rubin’s new book, ‘The Happiness Project‘, has been out for just two weeks and is already making a splash. It tells her story of spending a year testing strategies to be happier. It’s not that her life was bad beforehand – it wasn’t, and she was living a perfectly fine life in New York with her husband and young child. But she was curious about what it really took to be happy, and spend a year experimenting and blogging and writing about her journey.

In this interview we discuss:

• How to convert the theory of happiness to the practices of happiness.
• Whether novelty and challenge adds – or reduces – happiness.
• The paradox of why things that increase your happiness don’t always make you happy.
• The happiness strategy that Gretchen was most skeptical about – and what she ended up discovering.

You can follow Gretchen on Twitter at @GretchenRubin and read a sample chapter of her new book at her website.

Listen to my interview with Gretchen Rubin here

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Tags: Author, Coaching, happiness, Right People, Strategies

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