The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People by Meik WikingMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A nice guide to finding joy ranging from cute to practical to deep observations. The author is a professional happiness researcher and brings in interesting studies like which communities are more likely to help a stranger and how we are apparently wire to identify negative criticism with intelligence. Some of the advice resonated with me as I am bringing them more into my life: stewarding a sharing library and bicycling. Based in a very trusting society such as Denmark, some of the suggestions seem completely unworkable to me in, say, America: having an apartment complex open a community tool area of drills and hammers and expect these not to all go missing shortly. Ah, such is the value of having true trust amongst strangers.
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