How to be BETTER at being SAD
‘I think there is certainly a problem with dismissive positivity in our culture.’
How do you become an expert at being sad? Well, for author and journalist Helen Russell, it happened by accident. ‘Having spent the past eight years researching happiness worldwide, I’ve inadvertently become something of a specialist in sadness,’ she writes in her book, How to be Sad: The Key to a Happier Life.
Helen was living in London with a ‘big, shiny’ job at when her husband was offered his dream job – working for Lego in rural Jutland, Denmark. Despite the fact that she could barely pick out Denmark on a map (), she agreed to ditch it all and move to Scandinavia – in part, due to curiosity. The Danes are famous for being the happiest, a bible of sorts, soon followed by , an exploration of 30 countries and their take on what it means to live a good life.
