7/1/2023 0 Comments Rainn wilson kids![]() ![]() We think that the key to happiness is getting more stuff, having more social status, and having more people pay attention to us, when in fact, the opposite is true,” says Wilson, who delves deeper into this notion during the final episode when he returns home to Los Angeles. “American culture is completely backwards on this. (Travelers who want to experience Iceland’s secrets to happiness first-hand can join Weiner for a seven-day bliss tour of Iceland in October 2023).Īcross the world in Thailand, the unique birthday tradition of “making merit” or giving back is a key source of joy and wellbeing, notes Wilson, who visits the Southeast Asian country in the series. Iceland’s resilience, the ability its people have to survive in darkness for months on end, comes from a tradition of cooperating with neighbors and finding creative outlets-Iceland held the distinction as having the most writers per capita until recently. ![]() That might explain why living in a land of extreme nature, and marveling at it while sitting naked in a geothermal pool (as Wilson does in the show post cold-plunge in the sea), brings bliss in a place as remote as Iceland.īut each country does happiness its own way, explains Weiner. How other cultures find and define happiness The grump, or author, of the humorous travel memoir is Eric Weiner (also an AFAR writer), who is co-executive producer of the series. The docu-travel show is adapted from the New York Times best-selling book The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World. While he’s known for his comedic roles, Wilson’s spiritual quest isn’t new from his latest book about spirituality, Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, to his role as cofounder and podcaster for SoulPancake (which was “created to encourage open-hearted dialogue about what it means to be human”), he’s always been fascinated by life’s bigger questions. But there’s a lot of answers out there that lie in other cultures.” And we can get very arrogant and think we have all the answers. It’s something America needs right now,” says Wilson.“We need to be engaged in this conversation about what brings us joy, what brings us union, what brings us meaning. Despite his fame and success, happiness is something that the actor has personally struggled to find over the years he openly shares in the show his own struggles with anxiety and depression. “The point of the show isn’t ‘Oh, here’s a good place for you all to move to be happy.’ The point is, what are the secrets of happiness that we can find from other cultures?” Wilson tells AFAR over a recent Zoom call. This year, the number one spot was claimed for the sixth year in a row by another cold-plunge-loving Nordic country, Finland. For a decade, Iceland has landed among the top 5 countries in the U.N.-backed World Happiness Report, which ranks global happiness in more than 150 countries around the world (the U.S. His first stop is Iceland, which ranked third on the World Happiness Index for 2023. The 57-year-old comedian begins his global quest for happiness by joining two dozen local women for one of their weekly swims in the freezing North Atlantic just a few degrees south of the Arctic Circle. And I’m scared.” His trademark offbeat, self-deprecating humor is on full display from the first episode of the bingeable docu-travel series Rainn Wilson’s Geography of Bliss, which premieres on Peacock on May 18th. You might know him as Dwight Schrute, the resident geek from the cult-classic TV show The Office, but in Emmy-nominated actor Rainn Wilson’s new travel series, he’s simply himself (like Dwight, still a bit goofy and funny as ever) as he searches for the secrets to finding happiness across the globe. ![]()
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