The Art of Danish Living - by Meik Wiking (Hardcover)

About the Book

Using a "study from the Happiness Research Institute, Meik Wiking reveals the main factors that build happiness at work--purpose, trust, relationships, balance, and more--to show how we can reduce stress, increase productivity, and find fulfillment, both in and out of work. It is well known that the Danes have a fantastic work-life balance, that working late is discouraged, parental leave is split equally, and long summer holidays are the norm. They even have a word meaning 'happiness at work': arbejdsglµde. Meanwhile, the rest of the western world is struggling with a burn-out epidemic--but where are we going wrong?"--

Book Synopsis

A beautiful, research-backed guide on how to work like the happiest people in the world, the Danes. From the author of the million-copy bestseller The Little Book of Hygge.

​Based on a new study from the Happiness Research Institute, Meik Wiking reveals the main factors that build happiness at work--purpose, trust, relationships, balance, and more--to show how we can reduce stress, increase productivity, and find fulfillment, both in and out of work.

It is well known that the Danes have a fantastic work-life balance, that working late is discouraged, parental leave is split equally, and long summer holidays are the norm.

They even have a word meaning "happiness at work"--arbejdsglæde. Meanwhile, the rest of the western world is struggling with a burn-out epidemic--but where are we going wrong? There is an alternative, and The Art of Danish Living will provoke and inspire.

About the Author

Meik Wiking founded the world's first Happiness Research Institute in 2013, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is a New York Times and London Sunday Times bestselling author. Meik has been called the Indiana Jones of Smiles and "probably the world's happiest man" by the London Times. He is the author of four globally bestselling books that have sold more than two million copies worldwide: The Little Book of Hygge, The Little Book of Lykke, The Art of Making Memories, and My Hygge Home.