{"id":58420,"date":"2025-01-18T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58420"},"modified":"2025-01-18T19:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:17:54","slug":"the-art-of-danish-living-by-meik-wiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58420","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Danish Living by Meik Wiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The_Littel_Book_Of_Hygge.jpg\" alt=\"The Little Book Of Hygge\" width=\"413\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The_Littel_Book_Of_Hygge.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The_Littel_Book_Of_Hygge-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The_Littel_Book_Of_Hygge-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The_Littel_Book_Of_Hygge-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had to turn to author Meik Wiking of this gem to discover just why Danes are so happy. Lots of guff about work life balance and the fact that only 1% of Danes work 50 hours a week versus a global worker and incidentally a UK worker average of 10%.<\/p>\n<p>But the real standout is the 3 metre rule. No, nothing to do with Covid and social distancing, instead each and every Dane is encouraged to be their own CEO within a zone of 3 metres around them and to behave accordingly. So the next time you see a solitary Dane, respect his\/her space: he\/she is in his\/her own C suite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/howtohyggethebritishway.com\/2024\/09\/06\/book-friday-the-art-of-danish-living-by-meik-wiking\/\">https:\/\/howtohyggethebritishway.com\/2024\/09\/06\/book-friday-the-art-of-danish-living-by-meik-wiking\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had to turn to author Meik Wiking of this gem to discover just why Danes are so happy. Lots of guff about work life balance and the fact that only 1% of Danes work 50 hours a week versus a global worker and incidentally a UK worker average of 10%. But the real standout &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Art of Danish Living by Meik Wiking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58422,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58420\/revisions\/58422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}