Hygge and Happiness: The Good Life is Always in Fashion with Meik Wiking

Original Air Date Wednesday,May 3, 2023 

Do you wish your partner understood you better? Have you considered that they may not be wired to? Biology and chemistry are important factors in why we communicate the way we do.

Testosterone and Estrogen play a major role in social behaviors from a very young age. To empathetically examine what places men and women on opposite sides of the communication spectrum, Positive Psychology Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with sex and biology expert, Dr. Stephen Furlich. He shares some of the research behind his book Sex Talk: How Biological Sex Influences Gender Communication Differences Throughout Life’s Stages, strategies for how both genders can communicate with each other effectively, and why men and women are the way they are.


Hygge and Happiness: The Good Life is Always in Fashion with Meik Wiking

  • The principles of Hygge, or the art of creating a nice atmosphere to encourage everyday happiness. [3:09]
  • Meik focuses on the little things that bring us happiness in our day-to-day lives. [6:50]
  • A research study of 13,000 households in ten countries found clutter to be one of the biggest barriers to happiness in the home. [9:25]
  • What role does money play in human happiness? [10:31]
  • Activities that are done with purpose, with others, and that decouple wealth and well-being can increase day-to-day happiness. [16:21]
  • In his book, My Hygge Home, Meik includes design hacks to live better and the Cezanne effect. [21:38]

Hygge and Happiness: The Good Life is Always in Fashion with Meik WikingMeik Wiking is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen and one of the leading experts in global happiness. Committed to understanding happiness, subjective well-being, and quality of life, Meik works with countries across the world to discover and explore global trends of life satisfaction. Besides his work at the Happiness Research Institute, he is a Research Associate for Denmark at the World Database of Happiness and a member of the policy advisory group for the Global Happiness Policy Report.

Book: My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

 

 

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