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I am so excited about interviewing our guest today, Mike Viking.

He is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute, and he's been on a global mission to discover

components of happy people all over the world.

He's from Denmark.

He's also a New York Times bestselling author

and has written several books and reports on happiness, subjective well-being and the quality of life.

His books have sold over two million copies worldwide. We're going to talk to him about the Danish

concept of Huga, H-Y-G-G-E, and also his most recent book, The Art of Making Memories. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. Thank you. So I am so fascinated by this topic, and I was so grateful to find you.

Your books are incredible. I'll start off with saying that what led me to even get into this

concept of Danish happiness or understanding that Danes are, as you'll tell us, the happiest

people in the world, is through my stepfather, who is Danish, and he is from the island of Born

Home. And he never has a bad day, Mike. It's just really, it's really amazing. And over time,

when we looked into it, we're like, why are the Danes so happy? And one of the things I saw, and, you know, correct me if I'm wrong, but there was an element to the happiness that I've personally experienced with my stepdad, which is this, they don't have expectations. And I guess that's not to say that if someone promises you, they're going to fix your car and they don't, you don't have a proper expectation. But the way I've experienced it through my stepfather is that if plans go wrong,

if something happens that makes everything do a 180, they go with it. There's no complaining,

there's no bitching, there's no arguing with the reality of it. And one of the examples is that my parents were about to take a

trip and it was two hours away from their house and they were going to get on a like international

cruise. And my mother had forgotten my stepfather's papers. Most people would be freaking out,

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