The Happy Pod Special: The Happiest Country in the World
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week's edition comes from Finland, the country repeatedly crowned the happiest in the world, and the Helsinki Happiness Hacks event introduced people - selected from thousands of applicants across the globe - to Finns willing to share the secrets of their contentment. These include skateboarding, dancing with friends, messy art, walking barefoot, ice cream for breakfast, and of course, a sauna. And we explore how happiness is measured and why a dose of pessimism doesn’t preclude happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, we're in the capital of the happiest country in the world, |
| 0:08.0 | a fount of world happiness, if you will. |
| 0:10.0 | Where better to record the Happy Pod for the BBC World Service? |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 15th of June. |
| 0:23.0 | Finland has been crowned the happiest country in the world for the seventh year running |
| 0:30.0 | and a lot of people want to share in that. |
| 0:32.0 | So Finland has invited people from around the world |
| 0:34.6 | to take part in a five-day master class in happiness. |
| 0:38.0 | The hack is, there is no hack. |
| 0:39.8 | Happiness is all around you and all you have to do is look it's right in front of you. |
| 0:45.0 | Surprise it's there. |
| 0:47.0 | We've been following the happiness hackers across Helsinki and its islands |
| 0:51.0 | as they share their ideas and tips. |
| 0:53.0 | In Hell City, they don't have to play anything. |
| 0:57.0 | We are just allowed to be as we are. |
| 1:00.0 | When you make people sit around one table, |
| 1:02.0 | people get along much better. |
| 1:04.4 | We have nature everywhere. |
| 1:06.8 | It's even in the most urban places when you open your eyes for it. |
| 1:11.2 | Also, why a dose of pessimism doesn't preclude happiness. So quite a lot |
| 1:15.9 | to get through. Let's start by meeting Lena. Laines Salmi is a skateboarder, a graffiti artist, a very stylish woman who graces the streets of Helsinki, her home |
| 1:37.2 | city, in her own inimitable style. You're a social media influencer as well and you're also 70. |
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