The Happiness Project

'The Happiness Project' Summary of the book Gretchen Rubin is a successful writer living in New York City. She reflected one day that she had many things to be happy about in her life, but wasn’t always feeling happy. She concluded that she wanted to change how she felt, without making changes to her life. Or, as she puts it “I wanted to change my life without changing my life.” To achieve this, she embarked on a one-year Happiness Project. Spanning one year, she tracks her progress against monthly resolutions designed to increase her feelings of happiness in her life. Her resolutions include increasing energy by going to sleep earlier, challenging herself by launching a blog and writing a novel just for the fun of it. While researching happiness, she found that she learned more from reading one person’s detailed account than she did from reading research and studies. In this spirit, she shares with us her experiences, opening her life to her readers so that we might be inspired to make some changes too.