5 Swedish Life Lessons – (cultural quirks)

this video is sponsored by squarespace. for 10% off your first purchase, go to http://squarespace.com/jennymustard and use offer code jennymustard at checkout. after living outside of sweden for 9 years now, it is time to reflect on some life lessons my motherland taught me. these are some of the weird stuff and cultural quirks instilled in me from growing up in and around stockholm. the scandinavian culture is just as strange and fun and wise and sweet as every other cutlture out there. let s choose which of our cultural quirks to keep and treasure, and which to stop living our lives after since they simply makes zero bloody sense. so this video is all about sweden. do i miss it? do i want to go back? tell me about your country! is it lagom, like sweden? or maybe the opposite? i talk about: - good old svea rike - sweden is clean - growing up in a social democratic society - making that 10% extra effort - why swedish culture stumps creativity - husmanskost - are swedes financially comfortable? - why hierarchies don’t do well in sweden - salaries and summer cottages - kindness - dress code / scnadinavian home / nordic design / stockholm apartments - lagom, every swede’s favourite word - ‘just enough’ - uncomfortable around extravagances - why i hate lagom! - one for all, all for one - why i love paying my taxes - free healthcare / free university check out our PODCAST channel THE GOOD TIMES POD : http://bit.ly/2BQIp5D ___ find us on instagram ! @jennymustard - https://instagram.com/jennymustard/ @thegoodtimespod https://www.instagram.com/themustards_/ ___ support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/THEMUSTARDS subscribe to our podcast on itunes : https://apple.co/2DR2lpF spotify : https://spoti.fi/2BAGuUJ acast : https://www.acast.com/themustards ___ subscribe to my channel : http://bit.ly/2iBaKo9 ___ #sweden #livinginsweden #scandinavia