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"You Can Be Happier by Reading This Post"

This post was written by Penelope Trunk: "I'm pretty sure that the people who pay attention to happiness research are actually happier people. And happiness begets happiness. So I have a feeling that me just writing a post about happiness, and you reading it makes us all happier.

Here is why I think that:

Recently, Gretchen Rubin sent me her new book, The Happiness Project: Why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun.

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People who are basically happy and want to talk about it. Because happiness is contagious. So I kept reading the book. And, you know what? I didn't love the book, but I love that it made me think a lot more about the stuff she wrote about.

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Sonja Lyubomirsky, psychology professor at the University of California - Riverside, wrote a great book on all the tiny little things you can do to make yourself happier on a daily basis. The book is, The How of Happiness: A scientific approach to getting the life you want. It's an inspiring book because the things we can do are so small, like, give someone a surprise compliment.  But you don't need to do that today. And neither do I. Because I think, for today, getting to the end of this post counts."

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Source: Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist, 7 January 2010

© 2009 Penelope Trunk, All Rights Reserved

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).