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Finland Is the Happiest Country in the World, and Finns Aren't Happy about It
- johan_larson 8y agoI'm originally from Finland, and this article doesn't make me any happier than I was before.
- pimeys 8y agoBut you get nice summer headlines to sell some copies of local tabloids for people to read in their summer houses...
- kinleyd 8y agoThat would appear to be expected - being Finnish and all!
- johan_larson 8y agoI would compose a witty reply, were I not too busy drinking and brooding.
- kinleyd 8y agoYou Finns are too much! Seriously speaking though, I love how well grounded you are as a nation. The world would be a better place with more of that.
- aytekin 8y agoMaybe we need different words for all these different meanings of happiness. In addition to these 3 definitions of happiness in the article, here another one: miserable happiness. Examples: startups, babies, gym. You feel exhausted, miserable and helpless while feeling a different kind of, a more meaningful, happiness inside.
- mattnewton 8y agoMaybe it’s Eudemonic vs Hedonic happiness. In your example we might say they score low in hedonic measures of wellbeing, but highly on eudemonic measures. http://thebrainflux.com/2-types-happiness-psychology/ http://thebrainflux.com/2-types-happiness-psychology/
- carlivar 8y agoHere is another, Finnish word: sisu
- leesalminen 8y ago‘Tis my favorite Finnish word. My grandfather was born in Finland and taught me this at a very young age. He always thought it was important to embody Sisu in every day life.
- johan_larson 8y agoBest English translation: grit
- splintercell 8y agoMark Spitznagel covers this concept quite extensively in his book 'The Dao of Capital', which I highly recommend.
- coldcode 8y agoToo cold for me to be happy there. Now if Finland would move to the Caribbean, I'd move immediately.
- curtis 8y agoFinland is cold but Finns most definitely are not -- 5.3 million people and two million saunas [1]. [1] https://finland.fi/life-society/bare-facts-of-the-sauna/ https://finland.fi/life-society/bare-facts-of-the-sauna/
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoTrinidad is probably the closest thing to this in real life - not that Trinidadians are particularly Finnish - but Trinidad is one Caribbean country which is economically properous (without relying on tourism).
- hajderr 8y agoA good measure would be something that can withstand the ups and downs of life. What I mean is that if Finland would end up in a war and drastically changing the way people live. There wouldn't be anything left that would allow them to be happy, right? Therefore I think the best measure must be ones own experience of positive emotions and expression of gratitude.