We have Spearfishing Bay, which is great if you want to catch flounders. And of course those places have official names but I renamed them to fit the happy memories I have from those places. You rename a place based on which happy memory took place there.Įvery year we go to an island in the Baltic Sea and we have a lot of happy memories from that island.

I call it 'creating a treasure map of happy memories'. MW: 'Rename places that have special meaning to you. This is something that will be fun to look back at ten years from now.' 4. Create a 'treasure map of happy memories' So I advise having an account only you can access where you post a picture a day, sort of like a photo journal. MW: ' tip from the book would be to create that private personal social media account. I think especially if you have kids it's a fun exercise because then you get their perspective on what your kids thought were the happiest moments. Get the 100 happiest moments and you get those photos printed out and put them in an old-school photo album. So my suggestion is, once a year, as a family or by yourself, you get your phone out and then you go through those pictures and curate 'The Happy Hundred' or 'Happy Ten' or 'Happy Twenty' - you decide - and talk about which were actually our happiest moments in the past year. A lot of us feel overburdened by the number of photos we have on our phone. That's something you can do as a family because you have a lot of photos on your phone. MW: 'I recommend curating 'The Happy Hundred'. It was the first time I'd been on jet skis and I'm sure that I'm going to remember that for the rest of my life.' 2. 100 Photo Challenge

I'm more of a long-books-difficult-crosswords kind of daredevil. But then my friend suggested that we should rent jet skis. A couple of years ago, I had planned to spend the afternoon reading. So doing something extraordinary is more likely to be something you remember ten years from now. So we can try and seek out new experiences and of course going to new places.Įxtraordinary things are what stick to memory. Whereas after age 41, first experiences are simply rare. So first kiss, first apartment, first job, perhaps first car. There's a huge share of memories that are concentrated around the period from 15 to 30, in part because we have a lot of first experiences in those years. The reason for that is we have fewer first experiences. And I think a lot of people have that experience. I turned 41 and the years just seemed to go by faster and faster. MW: 'Understanding that there is actually something I can do to influence what my friends and my family remember and having that role as a memory architect is quite empowering. Duration 2:08 Meik Wiking: 'Happiness is a dish with many ingredients.

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