What I learned about happiness from the Little Book of Lykke

Lykke is the Danish word for happiness. After writing a best selling book called The Little Book of Hygge, he wrote a follow up that describes the different dimensions of happiness that Meik Wiking, as CEO of The Happiness Research Institute, has studied globally.

As you probably realize, happiness isn’t something simple to measure. Some people think happiness = money. Others may think of happiness as freedom. Or happiness as time. In Meik’s book, he defines happiness through a number of dimensions:

• Freedom (time, work life balance)
• Health (exercising, being active)
• Money
• Kindness (volunteering, random acts of kindness)
• Togetherness (connecting to family, friends and those around you)
• Trust

I am quite interested in the subject of happiness and I would also recommend Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha but here are some of the things that I liked from Meik’s book:

On experiences

You have probably heard before that rather than buying things, you are going to get more ‘happiness’ or ‘satisfaction’ from buying experiences instead. Sure that new laptop that you get is…