I was born in Poland and grew up in Germany, but my family and I have been living in the Netherlands for the last 14 years.
When I first discovered the concept of “niksen,” or the Dutch art of doing nothing, I was fascinated. I even wrote a book about it. When I applied it to my own life, my perspective about happiness shifted in a significant way.
I believe niksen is one of the reasons why the Dutch are consistently ranked as some of the happiest people in the world. Niksen might seem selfish or boring at first glance, but it’s actually a service to you and your community.
living wage, social services, work life balance, drugs
And much much Better urban planning that’s focused on people not on cars
Nah, must be the nicksen
I knew you hippies would come around to me eventually… arooooo.
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this isnt even pretending to be news, this is an opinion piece. Come the fuck on
Is there a !worldopinion?
Who the hell has time for niksen these days…
in the US we have The Dude
I am jealous of your “we”. I’m half Greek and half danish and can’t say we to any of them.
Where’s hygge from because that shits also fire.
Denmark
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Drugs is still doing something I assume. I’ve never been there but I am trying to picture doing nothing and having a hard time so I assume it’s something I should attempt to do myself. Maybe I’ll stare at a forest or something.
You’re better off going to Colorado or something for your weed. Probably cheaper and actually legal (and thus less shady people running the place). And the shrooms are also nerved (only truffels allowed, not caps) ever since tourists misused them. Those are the only real ‘legal’ (not actually legal) drugs.
Don’t mind if I do!
I’ve read that corporations who have their HQ’s in The Netherlands … are forced to get someone from some other country/culture, when searching for C-level people:
The Netherlands culture can’t and won’t be driven-enough to do the amount of work required: it isn’t sensical, in that culture, to be driven, so.
Just as your body has different organs for different kinds of function, we need to have different cultures for different kinds of people.
Without bones, how happy would you be using your liver, kidneys, brain, etc, for scaffolding while trying to stand-up??
The same is true of drivenness.
There is a season for each kind, in Nature, there is a place for each kind, in Nature, and we’d do much better, if we deliberately accepted/respected that, in our global urban-planning.
( this doesn’t say that gutting parenting, so as to have destitution-wages, to enforce attachment-disorder in the children, to produce in the next generation over 600 mass-shootings in the US in 2023, is somehow valid or proper or respectable, however.
Drivenness doesn’t require sociopathy-psychopathy/narcissism’s rule/dominion. )
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You could have used “selfish” or “sociopathic” instead.
