June 1: Happy Now? 10 Myths to Avoid

Have you heard about The Happiness Project? It’s a nonfiction book by Gretchen Rubin which is currently on the New York Times’ best sellers list. The author describes the book as “a memoir of the year I spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to be happy–from Aristotle to Martin Seligman to Thoreau to Oprah.”

From Julie and Julia to The Year Of Living Biblically there have been a lot of ‘live it and write it’ books out lately but there is a special charm to the idea behind this one. Who wouldn’t want to be happier? There are a lot of theories about what makes us happy and if one person wants to test drive them for us, why not?

If you want to know what might make you happier, you’ll have to read the book but I was intrigued by a post on Gretchen’s blog that outlined ten things that didn’t work.

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