By year’s end, she writes in the book, she learned to nag less and hug more.
“I wanted to appreciate more what I already have,” she explained. HOT CAKE The book that started it all, by a woman who would seem to have it all. I wanted to show that you don’t have to do something radical.” “I wanted to change my life without making major changes. “This is about ordinary happiness,” she added. First order of the day, getting your life together. 1 resolution I keep getting feedback on,” she said, “is ‘Make your bed.’ ” Manageable, she said. And those charts, which she ticked off daily.Īmid the salt spray of erudition, most of her insights turn out to be of the palm-smacking-forehead order. She drafted resolutions, Splendid Truths and 12 Commandments (No. Each month she chose a theme, like “energy,” “love,” “work,” and test-drove happiness theories.
She studied up on happiness studies by the founding fathers and mothers of the positive-psychology movement. With an intellectual curiosity accustomed to drilling deep and wide - Yale undergraduate, editor in chief of The Yale Law Journal - she headed for the library. Hers was a mild case of malaise, a below-the-surface restive irritableness. In 2006, recognizing that even though she was relatively content - good marriage to a private equities trader two young daughters nearby in-laws, Judy and Bob, with whom she had a warm relationship - Ms. “It gives people structure.”Īnd boy, does Ms. “I wonder if the key word is ‘project,’ ” mused David LeMaire, who buys self-help titles for Borders Books. With so much product out there - centuries of it, actually - what accounts for the lightning-strike success of Ms. Wilson’s “Against Happiness.” The spring book lists are teeming with beaming.) (See “The Nine Rooms of Happiness,” by Lucy Danziger and Catherine Birndorf “Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness,” by Ariel Gore “Stumbling on Happiness,” by Daniel Gilbert “Awakening Joy: 10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness,” by Shoshana Alexander and James Baraz. In these anxious times, it’s almost a must-have. Feel grateful.’ ”įor as long as happiness has been a warm puppy, the word has been a perennial of self-help epigrams and book titles. So I tried to remember to process my own project: ‘Enjoy the moment. “When I found out, I was on my book tour in Seattle. 1 ranking (the book has since slipped to No. “The ultimate professional gold star!” Ms. She sipped a Diet Coke in the library of her Manhattan triplex, a gas fire glowing in the fireplace. Yet she writes in the book that she still craves applause, which she calls a “gold star.” Rubin is a very confident, unabashed former lawyer who once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. 1 on the list!” she said without hesitation. What makes the author, 44, happy these days? “Hitting No.
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