The Happiness Project (39 page)

GRETCHEN RUBIN
is the author of several books, including the bestselling
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
and
Forty Ways to Look at JFK
. Rubin began her career in law, and she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized that she really wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two young daughters.

Visit Gretchen Rubin’s popular blog, The Happiness Project, at Slate.com or at www.happiness-project.com. Her author Web site is www.gretchenrubin.com
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THE HAPPINESS PROJECT
. Copyright © 2009 by Gretchen Rubin. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rubin, Gretchen Craft.

The happiness project/by Gretchen Rubin.—1st ed.

p.  cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-158325-4

ISBN-10: 0-06-158325-1

1. Happiness. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology) I. Title.

BF575.H27R83  2009

158—dc22      2009001412

EPub Edition © November 2009 ISBN: 978-0-06-196206-6

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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