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Gökotta is an untranslatable Swedish word, which essentially means “to rise at dawn in order to go out and listen to the birds sing”. Isn’t that a beautiful concept? I wonder how much time do you give yourself in the morning, dear reader, to start your day properly, to
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Tsundoku – it means acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them. The word dates back to the very beginning of modern Japan, the Meiji era (1868-1912) and has its origins in a pun. Tsundoku, which literally means reading pile, is written in Japanese
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Shoganai is an important word in Japanese. It can be translated “it can’t be helped.” It’s often used to describe Japanese culture, thinking and values. Shoganai is essentially a philosophy. It says that if something is out of your control it’s better to quickly accept it and
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Uitwaaien is an idiomatic Dutch expression that means to go out in windy weather, particularly into nature or a park, in order to refresh and clear one’s mind. Uitwaaien comes from the Dutch uit– ‘out-‘ and waaien, ‘to blow’, of wind. We all need to do this from time
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Flâner – Perhaps one of the most Parisian of all French words, the verb “flâner” was defined in the 19th century by the Paris literary crowd. It refers to the art of leisurely strolling the streets of Paris without any goal or destination simply for the pleasure of soaking up the
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Aspaldiko
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Smultronställe
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A whole month passed... can you believe?!
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ermahgerd!
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with a newsletter, of course
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Let's put the ho-ho-ho in home office
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well kinda ;)