Comments on: What matters most to you? Let The Happiness Project Toolbox help you decide.

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:32:16 +0000

@Ange: you have to write your resolution *also* in the line at the bottom.
I like the site, though there’s room for improvement regarding usability.

By: Wayward

Wayward — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:25:50 +0000

@ Anita—you’re absolutely right, the color scheme is overwhelming.

I stumbled across Gretchen’s Happiness Project a year or so ago. A couple of her blog posts were thought provoking, but most seemed self-indulgent, pedantic, and preachy. A lot of what she writes about is good, but her writing style completely turned me off. I stopped reading within a couple of weeks.

Occassionally one of her posts will end up on an RSS feed I get and I’ll click through on an interesting sounding title, however, as soon as I see it is realted to the Happiness Project, I leave. I wish Gretchen all the success (and happiness) in the world, but her writing is not for me.

By: David

David — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:31:02 +0000

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By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:21:40 +0000

Indeed so, Anita. Yikes! My eyes! Can’t handle the colour scheme at all…

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:11:41 +0000

For anyone interested in this subject, I highly recommend the book “Happier” by Tal Ben Shahar. He is the Harvard professor whose class on this subject is enormously popular. The book’s findings are based on research, which give it a lot of credibility. I took out a copy from my library and ended up photocopying pages of interest. The conclusions are somewhat “common sense” when you come down to it, however we don’t often follow our instincts on these matters. Anyway, I hope those of you who pursue this will enjoy the book as much as I did.

By: Ange

Ange — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:14:22 +0000

This looks really interesting. I looked around, signed up (realized I have waaay too many LastPass pwds) and then found out I can’t post a resolution. It just keeps kicking back with “Please enter something for your resolution,” and there’s no help resource. Bummer, because this looked quite fun. (Tried in Explorer & Firefox.)

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:46:17 +0000

I thought this would be a great resource – or at least a fun thing to play around with. Then I clicked the link and went “ow, my eyes!”

Maybe I’m just really tired today, but the colour scheme and page design gave me a headache. Good resource it may be, but uncluttered it is not. At least in my humble, sore-eyed opinion.

… Or have I uncluttered myself to the point of not being able to handle odd colour combinations?

By: Brandon Green

Brandon Green — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:13:02 +0000

Very cool resource–I’m looking forward to playing with it this afternoon.