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Lori Gottlieb On Why You Should Talk To Someone, Therapy, Couples Therapy & Removing Stigmas Around Therapy

The Bossticks

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How to Write a Book About Happiness

I was supposed to be writing a book about happiness and I couldn't write that book. What I really wanted to do was show people what I get to see every day, which is these beautiful stories of people taking risks. When I first turned in the book to my publisher, they changed their mind about whether three people were going to read this. Now over a million people have bought this book. So crazy. And I think it's because I was so vulnerable in the book. But then I didn't edit myself. I think that's what made you the books like so amazing to me. It was different.

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