Saturday, April 26, 2025

the happiness project - gretchen rubin (2009)



rather me-centric and almost discarded very early on, except she has a disarmingly frank chattiness and lots of ideas about things to do that is rather infectious. in the end i make it to the penultimate month of the year of the project, barring the skip lesions.

the key takeaway is her analysis of unhappiness. ...people cultivate unhappiness as a way to control others. they cling to unhappiness because without it they'd forgo the special consideration that unhappiness secures... unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish...

bingo! i think. this describes some people one has encountered to a t.

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