Scandinavia StandardHappiness doesn’t merely follow success — reviews of longitudinal research found that people who were happier initially were subsequently more likely to find employment, earn higher incomes and receive better workplace evaluations, suggesting that happiness and success may reinforce each other.scandinaviastandard.com - The BalanceThe familiar career bargain asks people to tolerate the present in exchange for a happier future. Find the job, earn the promotion, reach the salary, …
Scandinavia StandardThe Soviet Union invaded Finland in the winter of 1939 expecting the job done inside two weeks, and the Finns held the line for 105 days at temperatures below minus 40 degrees. One farmer turned sniper is credited with more than 500 Soviet dead in 100 days, on iron sights.scandinaviastandard.com - The Standard BriefOn 30 November 1939, the Soviet Union sent roughly a million men across the Finnish border, and Moscow was working on a short clock. When the Soviet …
Scandinavia StandardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIf You Are Good at Small Talk, Don’t Ask Others What They Do for a Livingscandinaviastandard.com - Scandinavia StandardThere is a particular question that people reach for the moment a conversation with a stranger begins, and it is almost always the same one: so, what …
Scandinavia StandardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe Deepest Regret of Older People Is Usually What They Haven’t Donescandinaviastandard.com - Scandinavia StandardThe idea that older people regret what they did not do, more than what they did, has hardened into something close to folk wisdom. It is largely …
Scandinavia StandardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSeemingly Innocent Things Not to Say to Someone Going Through a Divorcescandinaviastandard.com - Scandinavia StandardAlmost nobody who says the wrong thing to a friend going through a divorce means any harm. Quite the opposite: the clumsiest lines usually come from …
Scandinavia StandardLoneliness in Denmark roughly doubled between 2000 and 2021 across 83,437 people, and the sharpest rise, more than double the national average shift, hit sixteen to twenty-four-year-olds, not the older adults usually pictured when the word comes upscandinaviastandard.com - The Standard BriefAsk most people which age group carries the heaviest burden of loneliness, and they will point somewhere near retirement: an image of someone living …
