{"id":39307,"date":"2025-03-01T04:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39307"},"modified":"2025-03-01T04:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:31:27","slug":"the-swedish-philosophy-of-lagom-how-just-enough-is-all-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39307","title":{"rendered":"The Swedish philosophy of lagom: how &#8220;just enough&#8221; is all you need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AdobeStock_260585096-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"190\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Just because a thing is good doesn&#8217;t mean that you need more of it. &#8220;Lagom&#8221; teaches us to appreciate that &#8220;just enough&#8221; is all we need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/mini-philosophy\/swedish-philosophy-lagom-just-enough\/\">The Swedish philosophy of lagom: how &#8220;just enough&#8221; is all you need<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Bah!  <a href=\"https:\/\/ell.stackexchange.com\/questions\/175907\/what-is-the-meaning-of-he-who-dies-with-the-most-toys-wins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He who dies with the most toys wins<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because a thing is good doesn&#8217;t mean that you need more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[259,345,172],"class_list":["post-39307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-sweden","tag-words","tag-words-i-like","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39310,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39307\/revisions\/39310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}