This is the 10% Happier Podcast, I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, everybody.

If you want to get happier, get out in nature.

That is one of the blazingly obvious pieces of advice we hear all the time.

I'm guilty of this.

In fact, you may have heard me talk about my pantheon of no brainers, the simple things

everybody can do to boost their health and their happiness, including sleep, meditation,

exercise, healthy eating, etc.

I usually have nature right there on the list.

We know it can improve your mood, induce awe, help you sleep, and much more.

But how helpful is the advice, really, if it becomes the kind of thing that you know

you should do, but you don't actually have the time to do it.

So it just ends up making you feel less happy every time you hear it.

Today, we're going to get some very practical and to be a little cute down to earth advice

with a Scandinavian twist.

We haven't covered all of the Scandinavian approaches to happiness that much on this show.

I consider that to be a little bit of an oversight on my part.

You may have heard of some of the Scandinavian happiness concepts such as Puga, which is

all about the joy we can derive from being in cozy and convivial indoor atmospheres.

Today, we're going to talk about the flip side of the coin, which is called free-lift sleeve,

which is harder to pronounce than it is to understand.

I promise you, basically, it's all about the joy of what's called the open air life

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