330: Meik Wiking - The Art Of Making Memories
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Meik Wiking (IG: @meikwiking) is the CEO of The Happiness Research Institute.
He's a New York Times bestselling author and has written several books and reports on happiness, subjective well-being, and quality of life. Meik's books have sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
He's is a frequent speaker at a variety of conferences and seminars on happiness around the world.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Influencing your memories
- Balance positive memories vs. negative memories
- What were my happiest moments in life?
- Remembering events through association
- How your 5 senses help you retrieve memories
- Attention is the foundation for memory
- Using scent as a memory trigger
- Staying present in the moment
- Establishing healthier habits around smartphones
- Photographing your everyday life
- Be Marie Kondo’s arch enemy
- Curating the happy hundred
- Harnessing the power of firsts
- What is the Apollo Picnic?
- Using the emotional highlighter pen
- The impact of sharing embarrassing stories
- Storytelling helps solidify our memories
- The peak-end effect
- Ending on a high note
- The Mandela effect
- Plan and create a memorable year ahead
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Related links:
Meik Wiking - The Art of Making Memories (book)
Follow Meik Wiking on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Meik Wiking - The Little Book of Lykke (book)
Meik Wiking - The Little Book of Hygge (book)
Listen to Meik Wiking previously on TUHP (episode #211)
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| 0:00.0 | going from a perception of memory as something random that we do not have control over, |
| 0:06.0 | to seeing my memory as something I can actually influence. |
| 0:09.7 | I can actually sort of become a memory architect and influence what I and my friends and my family |
| 0:15.3 | remember in the future. |
| 0:16.6 | And I think that's a really nice and powerful tool to have. Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 330. |
| 0:29.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:31.0 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:34.4 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:38.8 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. And this week Mike Viking is back on the show he's the CEO of the |
| 0:47.1 | happiness research institute he's a New York Times best-selling author and has written |
| 0:52.0 | several books and reports on happiness, |
| 0:54.3 | subjective well-being, and quality of life. Mike's books have sold over 1 million |
| 0:59.3 | copies worldwide. He's a frequent speaker at a variety of conferences and seminars on |
| 1:04.3 | happiness around the world. When people ask me what my favorite episode |
| 1:08.6 | was that we've recorded I often refer to our first episode with Mike, |
| 1:13.0 | episode 211, all about happiness. |
| 1:16.0 | He has just such a very down to earth and grounded way of delivering his message |
| 1:21.0 | and his books are adorable and this book the art of |
| 1:25.1 | making memories is amazing and fits right into that and we're so excited to have |
| 1:30.3 | this episode go out right at the new year. |
| 1:33.3 | What a great time to start thinking about creating new memories for the new year |
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