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Hygge · The View Inside Me
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July 8, 2015. I spent the last week in Copenhagen for a family wedding. It is a place I visit often, and it always inspires me in my mission to make my home nation of Guernsey the best place to live on earth by 2020. But what I like most about Denmark is the cultural phenomenon of ‘hygge’ (pronounced heu-gah ): the art of having friendly social gatherings and intimate get-togethers with family and friends. A website devoted to this. Re-imagining and reinvention achieve so much more than tinkering about t...
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The Rat Park · The View Inside Me
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June 17, 2015. I am still really taken with the idea of social isolation as the cause of many of the problems in the world today, as I discussed in my recent blog post. I want to follow on from this by drawing attention to the real causes of addiction and the Rat Park experiments from the 1970s, as detailed in the work of Johann Hari, in Chasing the Scream. Do they go out on the streets afterwards, feeling the need to score their next fix? A different theory was proved when Canadian psychologist Bruce Al...
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