Culture / Society

Discover the Nordic recipe for happiness, from a Swedish professor of wellbeing

By Micael Dahlén

Micael Dahlén, the Swedish author, public speaker and professor of wellbeing, welfare, and happiness, who penned this essay. Photo: Marion Jaklin

You wouldn’t always know it to look at us, but those living in the Nordics are the happiest people in the world. Renowned author and public speaker Micael Dahlén, who also happens to be a professor of wellbeing, welfare and happiness at the Stockholm School of Economics, digs into why, despite the darkness and the cold, our region’s spirits continue to soar