Ep. 145 – MEIK WIKING/HAPPINESS- A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

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4.6 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to author and founder/CEO of The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Meik Wiking. Whilst discussing his book The Art of Making Memories, they talk about what happiness is, how it is measured and what, as humans, makes us happy. Tim and Miek also look at memories, how important they are and how to create more memories and importantly, more happy memories.

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And the work that Meik does can be found here - happinessresearchinstitute.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast sponsored by a cooker, spelt quaker pronounced cooker, 100 degree boiling hot water straight from your kitchen tap. Also does filtered sparkling water too. Today it's another special. Today we're having a conversation with Mike Viking, who's from Denmark.
0:22.6	He is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen.
0:28.6	And he's written a book called The Art of Making Memories, How to Create and Remember, Happy Moments.
0:34.6	I have interviewed him before.
0:36.6	He's obsessed with happiness. I interviewed him on Sunday
0:38.8	brunch once before, lovely man. He was doing his little book of Hugo, who, who, who, whoga,
0:46.1	I can't really pronounce it. But that was good. He's basically just obsessed with how we're going to be
0:53.8	happy. This book is, it's quite a long book as you
0:56.5	can see mark quite a in-depth book and it's just full of experiments and research and different ideas
1:04.3	of how to make memories um you know what why not let's meet him well just very quickly i would say
1:09.7	he practices practices practices what he preaches and he is a very happy man and this was a very joyous hour we spent with him.
1:17.1	It was indeed, yeah.
1:18.5	I had, I haven't stopped. I've actually got a faceache from grinning.
1:22.2	I had such a lovely time.
1:23.5	Lovely. Let's meet him. This is Mike Viking.
1:25.9	This is just a guide to modern life.
1:30.0	Modern life is hard to get just right.
1:34.0	It can frustrate you and annoy it.
1:37.8	And if it does, write into dear love, joy.
1:46.4	Mike, thank you for coming on the podcast today
1:48.9	welcome to my kitchen I bought your present
1:50.6	I buy all my guests a present
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