Several years back, I interviewed author Gretchen Rubin about her then-upcoming book,The Happiness Project. While we were chatting, Rubin—a former editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (aka, she’s no dummy)—spoke about her concern that it's become, basically, fashionable, for people to take pride in their sense of "irony and discernment" and often, sadly, just as fashionable to think happiness and joy are signs of naïveté.
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