{"id":1765,"date":"2010-02-10T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2014-12-28T10:33:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T15:33:53","slug":"ask-gretchen-rubin-the-happiness-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/ask-gretchen-rubin-the-happiness-interview\/1765\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1766\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/GretchenRubin.jpg\" alt=\"gretchen rubin, happiness project\" width=\"156\" height=\"234\" \/>We&#8217;re delighted to have Gretchen Rubin, the author of The Happiness Project, on shmula.com today. This page contains questions from my readers addressed to Gretchen Rubin. To see Gretchen&#8217;s answers, go to <a title=\"gretchen rubin answers questions on happiness\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/gretchen-rubin-part-i\/1795\/\">Happiness Project Part 1<\/a> and <a title=\"tips on how to be happy and habits of joy\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/gretchen-rubin-part-ii\/1809\/\">Happiness Project Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to read our other <a title=\"interviews with leaders series\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/leadership-interviews-innovation-thought-leaders\/\">interviews in our leadership series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Happiness Project<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Her epiphany described:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One rainy afternoon, while riding a city bus, Gretchen Rubin asked herself, What do I want from life, anyway?\u009d She answered, I want to be <em>happy<\/em>\u009d\u201dyet, she realized, she spent no time thinking about happiness. In that moment, she grasped two things: she wasn&#8217;t as happy as she could be, and her life wasn&#8217;t going to change unless she made it change. She decided to dedicate a year to a happiness project. The result? One of the most thoughtful and engaging works on happiness to have emerged from the recent explosion of interest in the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The Happiness Project brilliantly synthesizes the wisdom of the ages with current scientific research, as Rubin brings readers along on her journey to greater happiness. The Happiness Project covers everything from friendships to exercise, from TV-watching to novel-writing, from messy closets to the contemplation of infinity.<\/p>\n<p>My happiness project has convinced me that it&#8217;s possible to be happier by taking small, concrete steps in your daily life. In my book and on this daily blog, I write about what I&#8217;ve learned as I&#8217;ve test-driven the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture. Plutarch, Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, St. Th\u00c3\u00a9r\u00c3\u00a8se, the Dalai Lama, Oprah, Martin Seligman\u00a6I cover it all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>About Gretchen Rubin<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Her popular daily blog, The Happiness Project, appears on Slate and the Huffington Post and ranks in the prestigious Technorati Top 2K.\u009d There, she recounts her adventures and insights as she grapples with the challenges of how to be happier. She also blogs for RealSimple.com.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s talked to Matt Lauer on Today and to Brian Lamb on Booknotes, been profiled in The New Yorker&#8217;s Talk of the Town\u009d and Psychology Today, and done radio shows from the Leonard Lopate Show to Talk of the Nation to Voice of America to the Playboy Channel.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School (where she was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal), Rubin started her career as a lawyer, and she was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor when she realized she really wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two young daughters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Interview Logistics<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal.\u00a0 Ask Gretchen any question you might have in the comment section on this post.\u00a0 Gretchen will take a few weeks and respond to several of them and I&#8217;ll post her responses in upcoming blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll close the comments on <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>February 26, 2010<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, go visit her blog and go buy her book and start your own Happiness Project.<\/p>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re delighted to have Gretchen Rubin, the author of The Happiness Project, on shmula.com today. 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