211: Meik Wiking - What Is Happiness (Lykke)? • The Lost Wallet Experiment • Helper's High
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Meik Wiking is the CEO at The Happiness Research Institute and he's a New York Times bestselling author. He's written The Little Book of Hygge followed by The Little Book of Lykke (today's focus).
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is happiness?
- Overall happiness vs happiness in the here and now
- Establishing The Happiness Research Institute
- The benefits of co-housing
- Applying co-housing principles to living in a "regular" neighbourhood
- The importance of social support systems (friends & family)
- The impact of taking a week off from Facebook
- People care about their position in the social hierarchy
- Linking special purchases to a noteworthy occasion
- It's better to buy experiences vs things
- Forming a free-fun fellowship
- Decoupling wealth and well-being
- Building exercise/movement into our daily routines
- Shinrin-yoku/forest bathing
- On average, people who are self-employed are happier
- Tiger parents vs elephant parents
- Parents vs non-parents... who is happier?
- The lost wallet experiment
- Trust and happiness are linked
- The helper's high
- The free help guy
- Cooking and eating with friends
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Related links:
Meik Wiking - The Little Book of Lykke
Meik Wiking - The Little Book of Hygge
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Related episodes:
330: Meik Wiking – The Art Of Making Memories
242: Sarah Knight – You Do You • Happiness In Imperfection • Managing Anxiety
105: Sharon Salzberg – Real Happiness: The Power Of Meditation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | what people often care about is not their ability to consume, but their position in the |
| 0:05.2 | social hierarchy. |
| 0:06.4 | So that's why we see sometimes countries becoming richer without people becoming happier, |
| 0:11.3 | even though there is a relationship between money and |
| 0:14.4 | happiness. |
| 0:15.4 | Hello and to the next level. This week our featured guest is Mike Viking. He's the CEO at |
| 0:34.8 | the Happiness Research Institute and he's the New York Times best-selling author. |
| 0:38.9 | Mike has two books that are quite amazing and one is called |
| 0:44.1 | whoga and today we focus on the book |
| 0:46.8 | Luca which is all about happiness and these are great books just to |
| 0:51.0 | keep on hand at home you can keep them on your coffee table |
| 0:53.8 | and what I love most is that you can just pick them up grab a little section of the book |
| 0:57.4 | read about it and implement the changes into your life great tips. |
| 1:01.4 | So some of the things that we talk about in today's interview are what Mike's definition of happiness is, |
| 1:07.0 | the importance of social support systems, it's better to buy experiences versus buying things |
| 1:13.1 | building exercise and movement into your day |
| 1:15.8 | and the importance of cooking and eating with friends. |
| 1:18.4 | Lots of great practical tips |
| 1:20.0 | to start implementing right away. |
| 1:21.6 | Here we go with Mike Viking. |
| 1:23.8 | Hello, Mike, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:25.5 | How's it going over there? |
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