#32 The Science of Happiness with Meik Wiking
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Dr Rangan Chatterjee
4.8 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
“Globally we are richer than ever before, but we fail to convert that wealth into wellbeing”
Meik Wiking, author of best-selling book Hygge, understands happiness better than anyone. In his role as Founder and CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Institute, he has travelled the globe interviewing the world's happiest people to discover the key components of happiness. In this episode, we explore the fascinating findings of his research and uncover what we can learn from the world’s happiest countries. We talk about the impact of stress on our happiness and how although we are richer than ever before, we have failed to convert that wealth into wellbeing. It seems that despite all our cultural differences, we as a human race have a very similar view of happiness across the world. Meik and I discuss how one of the most important components of a happy life is meaning and purpose and how this has been gradually eroded from our lives. This is an eye-opening and fascinating conversation – I hope you enjoy it.
My upcoming book, ‘The Stress Solution’ covers meaning and purpose in great detail. You can pre-order it on Amazon.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of people talk about the pursuit of happiness, but I think in many ways it's better |
| 0:04.8 | to talk about the happiness of pursuit and seeing happiness as a byproduct of something |
| 0:09.3 | else, a meaningful life, for instance, or a greater purpose. |
| 0:13.5 | Hi, my name is Dr. Rungan Chatterjee, Medical Doctor, author of the Four Pillar Plan and Television |
| 0:20.8 | Presenter. |
| 0:21.8 | I believe that all of us have the ability to feel better than we currently do, but getting |
| 0:27.0 | healthy has become far too complicated, with this podcast by aim to simplify it. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm going to be having conversations with some of the most interesting and exciting people |
| 0:37.0 | both within, as well as outside the health space, to hopefully inspire you, as well as empower |
| 0:42.9 | you with simple tips that you can put into practice immediately to transform the way |
| 0:47.5 | that you feel. |
| 0:48.5 | I believe that when we are healthier, we are happier because when we feel better, we |
| 0:54.3 | live more. |
| 0:57.8 | Hello and welcome to another episode of my Feel Better Live More podcast. |
| 1:03.1 | My name is Rungan Chatterjee and I am your host. |
| 1:06.4 | Today's conversation is all about happiness. |
| 1:09.6 | What it is, is it a realistic goal? |
| 1:12.2 | And how do we get more off it? |
| 1:14.4 | My guess today is that one and only Mike Viking. |
| 1:18.3 | Mike has written multiple best-selling books on the topic, including The Little Book of |
| 1:23.0 | Hugger. |
| 1:24.7 | Mike understands happiness better than anyone. |
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