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The Art of Making Memories

How to Create and Remember Happy Moments

by Meik Wiking
Meik Wiking
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A practical guide to creating memorable moments from Meik Wiking, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge.

Every year, we are given a fixed number of days. Some days pass us by without leaving a trace—and some days we remember forever. 

Do you remember your first kiss? Or how the first rays of the spring sun feel? Or how about the best meal you ever had? These memorable experiences are characterized by intensity of perception, depth of feeling, or sense of profound significance causing them to stand out in our mind and involve a heightened sense of wonder and awe. But what ingredients produce these happy memories? Why is it that a piece of music, a smell or a taste can take us back to something we had forgotten? And can we learn to create happy memories and be better at holding on to them?

Combining research on happiness and mnemonics (learning techniques that aid memory retention or retrieval), Meik Wiking explores how peak experiences are made, stored, and remembered. Using data and diaries, interviews, global surveys and studies, and conducting real-life behavioural science and happiness experiments, The Art of Making Memories will answer how we can create perfect moments. Moments that will go down in history. This book will help you create more peak experiences, help you retrieve happy memories of the past, and store them for the future.

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  • Release date

    October 1, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780735238985
      • File size: 131751 KB
      • Duration: 04:34:28

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The Danish happiness investigator and author of THE LITTLE BOOK OF HYGGE and THE LITTLE BOOK OF LYKKE is back, this time with a look at the mechanisms of memory. In a chatty, friendly tone and with lots of self-deprecating jokes, Wiking urges us to ask ourselves how we will remember the good times in our lives and offers ways we can create experiences that are worth remembering. Some of his suggestions: Try new things, celebrate milestones, and surround yourself with objects that evoke happy memories. Wiking's research and stories are bound to have listeners recalling some of their own happy memories and inspire them to safeguard those memories for the future--and work on making new ones. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from November 4, 2019
      Wiking, who explored the Danish concept of cozy contentment in The Little Book of Hygge, returns to the well of happiness in this fresh exploration of memories and memory making. Providing insight on the concept and history of nostalgia, the author offers guidance on how readers can use memories to find comfort or stave off loneliness. Wiking presents studies—some conducted by his own Happiness Research Institute—to support his theories on how what one remembers shapes one’s life and identity. In order to create happy memories, he recommends seeking out “first” experiences, making occasions “multisensory,” rehashing peaks and struggles afterward, and telling stories. Personal anecdotes and plenty of references to movies and literature (Proust’s madeleine makes an appearance) will also keep readers engaged. Then, turning from creating memories to remembering them, Meik’s advice includes many suggestions that can be easily incorporated into everyday life, such as wearing perfume, employing a soundtrack for certain months, and reconnecting with loved ones. The assertion that one has some agency in what one remembers will be an inspiration to those who have believed memory retention to be beyond their control. Wiking’s focus on the pleasure and solace created by happy memories will make this accessible book great for deep study and casual perusal alike.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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