My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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Monthly Archives: November 2008

November 3, 2008

Following my resolution to “Ask for help.” Help with what? StumbleUpon.

One of my happiness-project resolutions is to Ask for help. Sometimes this is easy, sometimes it’s surprisingly hard. If you’ve been reading The Happiness Project for a while, you might have noticed the links at the bottom of every article: ‘Digg This!’ or ‘Stumble It!.’ In case you are as mystified as I once was about what these describe, I … →

November 1, 2008

Happiness quotation from Aristotle.

“What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description…we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason.” –Aristotle * I’ve started sending out short monthly newsletters that will highlight the best of the previous month’s posts. If you’d … →

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin is one of the most thought-provoking and influential writers on happiness. Her book The Happiness Project is a #1 New York Times bestseller; Happier at Home hits shelves in summer 2012. Here, she writes about her adventures as she test-drives the studies and theories about how to be happier.