The truth is, all humans need an up moment and down moment, some more than others. All emotions are good, all extremes are not good. You HAVE to experience sadness and stress and anger to be able to experience love and happiness and calmness. The way to battle depression is to accept that is okay to be depressed, is okay to feel like shit and not want to move, is a human emotion and you're not broken because of it, you feel it because you're alive. Just, don't let yourself wander in that sadness for too long, again, all in extremes is bad
No, he is the epitome of pathetic. Instead of trying to make people take responsibility for their suffering, he is instead, encouraging people to just give up and stop developing. What he seems to not understand, however, is, despite being a psychologist, that people are hardwired to experience happiness and joy when moving towards a goal that they value. That is what developing as a person, essentially is, and he is telling people, that if they think that is too hard, they should just give up, and accept that they are going to be sad sometimes, instead of trying to do something about it. That is pathetic.
My credo: aim for contentment as often as possible. Take discontentment as a normal thing and live through it. And when it walks by - enjoy it as long as it lasts. Happiness is just a spike. And if sadness says hello - say hello back - it's ok.
Would you try any of Svend's advice? -- Focus on the negative in your life; -- Stop trying to "find yourself"; -- Practice saying "no" five times a day.
Calls himself a realist but really is delusional and assumes not striving for improvement is happiness.... might have something to do with logic altering antidepressants.
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If you don`t have down days, or acknowledge that everything is not always great, then you don`t appreciate when things are great. Then Great just become mundane and boring. You need lows to have highs
0:54 so nobody else is allowed to be more happy than you?? Just because you have good social security that doesn't mean everything. Money is not all that make a person happy... This video is just proof that even if your government and country is coming close to perfect people will be unhappy because money and social security doesn't bring happiness. And I think people should self improve and be happy and not stagnate.
Actually we are happy the once he talks about sudfering from depression and anxiety is almost all females, their is just no way to make a bitch happy 😂
It was a rhetorical question. He did not say that 'nobody else is allowed to be happier' what so ever. He said that people themselves (e.g. in Denmark) compare their lives to others and think that since they are healthy and secure in comparison to some other people around the globe, it would be ungrateful not to be happy.. and if they are, in fact, not happy they start to believe something is wrong with them...Which is not the case. We are all unhappy from time to time. What psychological studies show that 'stagnation' is inherently bad? Do you just think people Should self-improve all the time because you have internalised the strong "Be happy, develop"-discourse or because you have seen scietific proof that it makes us happier? Plus... Please, never tell a depressed or stressed person that they shoud 'self improve, be happy and not stagnate'. :-)
He's not saying "be more negative". He's saying, just feel what you feel without rejecting or pathologizing those less positive feelings. It's not black or white thinking.
My opinion is after "Janteloven" more and more got pushed aside we kinda moved in the negative direction even many saw "Janteloven" as a negative thing.
Yeah I know. So many now see Janteloven as a bad thing suddenly but I think it's great! It really helps assure you that you can be just as good as everyone else around you, one way or another. No one's better or worse than eachother. But sadly some people for some reason seems to turn on that concept, and now all I see in a lot of places are people always trying to one up one another in this negative way towards eachother. Especially in the case of people from Vestegnen. I went to 2 different boarding school, on both of which more than half the students either lived in Vestegnen or had family and or friends there. Meanwhile I now study at a Gymnasium with people mostly from Hellerup, Lyngby and Frederiksberg and they're much nicer, much more compassionate and they are at least a little fond of Janteloven. Sorry for ranting for so long.
Brilliant, for me Schopenhauer is one of the greatest most underated philosophers and I perceive some of his ideology in this, constante desire leads to suffering. Self help has become a dangerous cult un which You are always inadequate in some way, social media has also contributed to this I have to be utterly happy, active, constantly evolving human being. But when you really analyze is setting expectations that a lot of people are finding way too hard to meet up, depression numbers are rising instead of lowering
This of course woud only work with countries like Denmark. Put it in the developing countries where poverty, negativity, corruption, uncertainty and instability on high level, it will be different story. People there need positivity on daily doses to cope with the challenges. You put everyone in Denmark situation, most propbably everyone will be happy certainly. If the world happines index reported that a developing countries with many lack but high level of happiness, that is something!!
People everywhere and in every culture and situation need to be able to be FULLY human. That means allowing their real and legitimate feelings of fear, anxiety, sadness, rage, etc to exist. When we deny any feelings or pathologize them as "bad" or "wrong" we are amputating a piece of ourselves. These so-called negative feelings are informative. They tell us what to pay attention to. Slapping a forced happy face on when we're grieving or fearful is, in some ways, a subtle act of oppression.
''Just accept yourself as you are'' is the most poor advice, coming from a proud Svend Brinkmann who doesn't really care more about you than being 'original' in his unoriginal postmodern approach. One should find oneself, but in order to do so, one must first know oneself and ones limitations. This ''You live in privilaged Denmark, aren't you a shame of not being satisfied with your life''- way of thinking, DOES NOT HELP YOU !
as a Danish person to me it sounds like this guy completely misunderstood the Danish mentality it is not I am happy it is I am content with being here my life is ok and I'm ok with that that is the Danish mentality and of course you have to be positive in your life take it from someone like me who's suicidal if I don't think happy thoughts if I don't think my life might get better well I would have killed myself a long time ago but every time I tried I always thought maybe life gets better and me life is ok my problem in life isn't that I say yes to too many things my problem is that I say no to everything because I will get anxiety so don't be happy be content and be positive try to get the best out of life
Calls himself a realist but really is delusional and assumes not striving for improvement is happiness.... might have something to do with logic altering antidepressants.
The way he is talking as if people in Denmark have the best conditions to be happy (which he means social security) but there are much more factors to happiness. There is literally nothing positive about country except social security. Factors such as having friends, talking even with random person on the street, most people in Denmark are introverts, but in bad way, most of people just care about themselves. Most of people are egoistic, mean, racist, have drinking problems, sex addiction, depression. The whole society is at its peak and its rotten inside out. Nobody cares about anyone. People who are neighbors don't know each other. Only way to find friends in there is to go drink on weekends, and after drinking nobody knows you anymore. It is hellhole of a country and I don't recommend any foreigner to move in there. They don't want you and you don't want to be there. PS.: education is easy there but it sucks.
We moved fast from farm hunter community, with animals to a fast growing community and consumers, media with high demands in skils and we let does whom not it know how, does with no, jobs, elders dopped, handicapped discrimination, even ethnic cleansing That's never, was intended, life is practical, making food, from your garden, being part in community, church, now isolated consumed and more and more, on medication, children that can't keep pace in studies, go out to nothing but benefits, which now is larger and larger groups as robots run, industry, so what furture,,,, maybe its not political, maybe it's land to built on, grown on , villages back No to consumers. I d, organic, check bigger organic places. Example prince Charles, or denmark svanholm gods We not all, fast, high iq, high performance, and therefor not all, can meet the high demands on bankers, state, commune Technology, or siance, graphic information of millions in one, case, transfer, mashined, so that you will happen To billions without skills, education, iq, and what about millions in Denmark outside, position, rights, left On social welfare, low income, building villages, with land, and small business, craft and small trades, Could be a good idea, to not overlook, millions of people, not in control,
I was talking about Denmark to a friend who moved from there. I was intrigued by the way they set up their socialism But She said there's no diversity. Only white ppl. Is Denmark a racist country???
