By Gretchen Rubin

Interview: Anne Kreamer.

I met Anne Kreamer because I was a big fan of her book, Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters. Not dying her hair any more was a sort of happiness-project for Anne, so that really caught my attention.

We soon discovered that we'd both grown up in Kansas City, and for a while, our parents lived just a blog away from each other (and knew each other). Small world!

Now Anne has a terrific new book: It's Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace. It's a very thought-provoking look at the role of emotions in the workplace; anger, fear, anxiety, joy, and empathy influence our productivity and our happiness at work, but we don't often think about them as elements... More...