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Ep 80. How to be Happier with Meik Wiking


The Art of Making Memories, is on the importance of happy memories on our health and wellbeing and how we can create more happy moments in the future.



Meik Wiking is one of today’s most influential happiness researchers. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times Bestsellers: The Little Book of Hygge and The Little Book of Lykke. With more than one million copies sold worldwide, in more than 35 languages, he enjoys a wide readership.



Meik has been called The Indiana Jones of Smiles and probably the World´s happiest man by The Times. His new book, The Art of Making Memories, is on the importance of happy memories on our health and wellbeing and how we can create more of happy moments in the future.



We discuss:



* The ingredients for happy memories* How his techniques could help with depression* Meik shares his top tips for happiness



You can find Meik on Instagram @meikwiking



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TRANSCRIPT



Chloe B.:                Hello, and welcome to the calmer you podcast. This is the place to be calm at your calmest, happiest, and most confident self. I'm your host Chloe Brotheridge, hypnotherapist, and coach and the author of the anxiety solution and brave new girl. So today, I'm talking to Meik Wiking, who is the author of the new book, the art of making memories. And you might have heard of a couple of his other books, including the New York Times bestsellers the little book of Hygge and the little book of Lykke.



So Meik is one of today's most
influential happiness researchers, he's been called the Indiana Jones of
smiles, and probably the world's happiest man by the times. And his latest
book, the art-making memories, is about the importance of memories on our
health and well-being, and how we can create more happy moments in the future.
And we get into what the ingredients for happy memories are. We talk about his
techniques and how they could help with depression, and we get into Meik's top
tips for happiness, and he is really the expert in this field.



So I absolutely loved this
conversation, there were loads of things that I'm going to be inc...

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