Taylor reviewed Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking
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5 stars
The fundamentals of happier people and societies.
Written by the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute and a native of the most consistently ranked happiest country in the world. He gives great insight not only from data his and similar institutions have collected, but also from his personal experiences of traveling around the world and how it differs from Denmark (for better and worse).
Togetherness, money, health, freedom, trust, and kindness are the book's metrics for evaluating a country’s happiness. Each chapter dives in to the core of healthy societies: a sense of community and tribe, feeling inferior or excluded from your system or government, having autonomy, and the compounding effects of things like inequality, trust, and altruism.
A light read on an important topic. The graphs are easy to understand and the pictures and aesthetic of the book is great. Didn’t find it to overlap much with the author’s …
The fundamentals of happier people and societies.
Written by the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute and a native of the most consistently ranked happiest country in the world. He gives great insight not only from data his and similar institutions have collected, but also from his personal experiences of traveling around the world and how it differs from Denmark (for better and worse).
Togetherness, money, health, freedom, trust, and kindness are the book's metrics for evaluating a country’s happiness. Each chapter dives in to the core of healthy societies: a sense of community and tribe, feeling inferior or excluded from your system or government, having autonomy, and the compounding effects of things like inequality, trust, and altruism.
A light read on an important topic. The graphs are easy to understand and the pictures and aesthetic of the book is great. Didn’t find it to overlap much with the author’s book on Hygge, which was also a great read. If anything the books compliment each other well.
