The Atlas of Happiness
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'A DELIGHT' Grazia 'THE GLOBAL SECRETS TO HAPPINESS THAT CAN CHANGE OUR LIVES' Good Housekeeping 'BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED AND FASCINATING' Emerald Street 'POSITIVITY JUMPS OUT OF EVERY PAGE' The Lady From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Danishly, an entertaining, reassuring and useful trip around the world, discovering the secrets of happiness from 30 countries. - Feeling terrified of that upcoming job interview? Take inspiration from the Icelanders and get some Þetta reddast, the unwavering belief that everything will work out in the end. - Lost your way in life? Make like the Chinese and find your xingfu, or the thing that gives you real purpose. - Too much on your plate? The Italians can help you learn the fine art of dolce far niente, aka the sweetness of doing nothing at all. - Overwhelmed by busyness and disconnected from nature? The Swedish have a solution - just find your smultronställe, or 'wild strawberry patch', your perfect escape from the rest of the world. From Australia to Wales, via Bhutan, Ireland, Finland, Turkey, Syria, Japan, and many more besides, The Atlas of Happiness uncovers the global secrets to happiness, and how they can change our lives.
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Helen Russell takes a careful look at all the ways people around the world find to be happy. She features thirty of these methods in her book, The Atlas of Happiness: The Global Secrets of How to Be Happy.
In Japan, the word that sums up the way people find happiness is wabi-sabi.
What is wabi-sabi (pronounced “wah-be-sah-be”)? From the book: ‘The abandonment of all aesthetic ideals that demand “perfection,” wabi-sabi is an appreciation of things the way they are; a reveling in the texture and complexity of real life and the beauty of imperfection.” Yes, the beauty of imperfection.
The happiness techniques are: fair go (Australia); Gross National Happiness (Bhutan); Saudade (Brazil); joie de vivre (Canada); xingfu (China); pura vida (Costa Rica); arbejdsglaede (Denmark); jolly (England); kalsarikannit (Finland); gemutlichkeit (Germany); meraki (Greece); aloha (Hawaii); petta reddast (Iceland); jugaad (India); craic (Ireland); dolce far niente (Italy); wabi-sabi (Japan); turangawaewae & haka (New Zealand); friluftsliv (Norway); azart (Russia); ubuntu (South Africa); tapeo & sobremesa (Spain); smultronstalle & lagom (Sweden); federerism (Sweden); tarab (Syria); mai pen rai (Thailand); gezellig (The Netherlands); keyif (Turkey); homeyness (USA); and hwyl (Wales).
