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Hey, everyone.

Just want to give a quick intro on this episode.

Today, I spoke with Mike Viking, who is a Dane, of course, out of Denmark, and is a researcher at the Happiness Research Institute.

Also wrote a very enlightening, I guess you could say

book called The Little Book of Huga. And if you haven't heard, and the focus of the interview

today was Huga, Huga is essentially a Danish philosophy of happiness, coisiness, and

togetherness. And to put it really simply, it's something that I think

is missing from many people's lives, especially in American and other similar to Westernized

countries, which is you could maybe encapsulate it simply as time with friends or family

in a cozy, oftentimes preferably dim-lit or candle-lit environment where you have

good conversation and enjoy just the simple pleasure of each other, maybe some nice music,

some nice food again in a dim-lit room, and you just have that time to connect with people

not on your phone, not watching TV, not being stressed, not traveling all over

the place and doing a bunch of stuff, just in a cozy dimlet room, enjoying each other's company.

And I found this conversation to be very insightful and important for a number of reasons,

but again, one, because I think this is a missing ingredient in many people's lives,

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