Dr Nick Lavidis, the Australian scientist who has developed a room spray with a scent of mown grass, claims that smelling it will improve people’s memory and lift their mood
Hmm, I’m not sure you can bottle happiness. I think environmental conditions such as:
Like other Scandinavian countries, it has espoused a model of high taxes, aggressive egalitarianism and excellent social services, but unlike them, it has made it work without crushing economic growth or incentives to succeed. It’s the sort of model you’d expect Americans to detest, yet American expats in Denmark love the lifestyle so much they often don’t bother going back home. The value the Danes set most store by is hygge, loosely translated as a combination of:
relaxing,
eating,
drinking,
partying, and
spending time with family.
However, this needs to applied in moderation:
As a guy is walking around Edinburgh taking in the sights he notices an old lady sitting on her front step. He says, “I couldn’t help noticing how happy you look! What is your secret for such a long, happy life?”
“Well” she says “I smoke 4 packs of cigarettes a day and before I go to bed I smoke a nice big joint. Also, I drink a whole bottle of Jack Daniels every night, and I only ever eat junk food. Apart from that, at weekends I pop a huge number of pills and do no exercise at all.”
“This is absolutely amazing at your age!!!!”, says the man “How old are you?”
There’s an old (not very good joke) which goes something like:
I used to think drinking was bad for me. So I gave up thinking.
This is exactly what happens when you go on vacation. The tenuous link between having fun and consumption of alcohol, which is partly (but not entirely) fuelled by advertising clicks into action in your brain. The feeling and behaviors associated with drinking a lager with your full English breakfast, to line your stomach from the massive hangover which finished at 4am, are caused by a person’s thoughts, not outside stimuli like people, situations and events. To ever have a hope of sticking to something like the same recommended limits people on vacation have to change how they think about being on holiday which will then alter how they behave.
However, this as we all know is unlikely to happen. I recall a quote from the TV show Booze Britain which went something like this:
Why is it that certain people are so against solitary drinking, as if it’s somehow ’sad’? If I fancy a heavy drinking session, I would rather wake up at 4am in a pool of my own urine and sick, having passed out 2 hours earlier, in the comfort of my own living room than lying in some dark alley next to a low-grade nightclub, minus my wallet and leather coat, any day of the week.
There’s an old (not very good joke) which goes something like:
I used to think drinking was bad for me. So I gave up thinking.
This is exactly what happens when you go on vacation. The tenuous link between having fun and consumption of alcohol, which is partly (but not entirely) fuelled by advertising clicks into action in your brain. The feeling and behaviors associated with drinking a lager with your full English breakfast, to line your stomach from the massive hangover which finished at 4am, are caused by a person’s thoughts, not outside stimuli like people, situations and events. To ever have a hope of sticking to something like the same recommended limits people on vacation have to change how they think about being on holiday which will then alter how they behave.
However, this as we all know is unlikely to happen. I recall a quote from the TV show Booze Britain which went something like this:
Why is it that certain people are so against solitary drinking, as if it’s somehow ’sad’? If I fancy a heavy drinking session, I would rather wake up at 4am in a pool of my own urine and sick, having passed out 2 hours earlier, in the comfort of my own living room than lying in some dark alley next to a low-grade nightclub, minus my wallet and leather coat, any day of the week.
There’s an old (not very good joke) which goes something like:
I used to think drinking was bad for me. So I gave up thinking.
This is exactly what happens when you go on vacation. The tenuous link between having fun and consumption of alcohol, which is partly (but not entirely) fuelled by advertising clicks into action in your brain. The feeling and behaviors associated with drinking a lager with your full English breakfast, to line your stomach from the massive hangover which finished at 4am, are caused by a person’s thoughts, not outside stimuli like people, situations and events. To ever have a hope of sticking to something like the same recommended limits people on vacation have to change how they think about being on holiday which will then alter how they behave.
However, this as we all know is unlikely to happen. I recall a quote from the TV show Booze Britain which went something like this:
Why is it that certain people are so against solitary drinking, as if it’s somehow ’sad’? If I fancy a heavy drinking session, I would rather wake up at 4am in a pool of my own urine and sick, having passed out 2 hours earlier, in the comfort of my own living room than lying in some dark alley next to a low-grade nightclub, minus my wallet and leather coat, any day of the week.
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