Trace Dominguez 0:00 This is real hot chocolate. I'm not joking.
I'm not just doing this for the video. I love hot chocolate. Good evening enthusiasts. I
don't know if it's evening where you are but this is a video about being cozy and evening
is just the most cozy, isn't it? You know, not night or afternoon or morning, but a nice
sunset in the evening. Just the best. so cozy, hot chocolate warm fire fluffy blankets, squashy
chairs, thick socks, gratitude, contentment, slightly out of focus streetlights, these
words don't make you feel huge. I don't know what will you get is a Danish word that has
no direct translation. It's a feeling of contentment and comfort, of coziness and connection. What
word describes the feeling of the American holiday is better Can you think of one because
I can't but there is science behind it. And I got you fam. So let's be curious.
You get has a definition of quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engender
is a feeling of contentment or well being regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish
culture, even like the definition feels cozy. Not all Danes and Norwegians are chilly air,
but like the Irish pub for the green isles that you get has become a cultural identifier
for Scandinavians, and it does seem to be working for them. Scandinavian nations are
consistently rated in the top of the UN's World Happiness Report. So can you use the
science of Hugh good to make you happier, more creative, more social, let's break down
into its components and figure out why it feels so great. Cuba is characterized by warm
light, organic and very textures, natural materials, human connections, and of course,
intentional interactions and gratitude. Each of these things has an underpinning in science.
Honestly, it's almost like the perfect storm of good vibes. So let's take one at a time.
warm light is a distinction of color temperature. color temperature is something both physicists
and filmmakers have in common and it's rated in Kelvin. Just like with stars, higher temperatures
are bluer and whiter and lower temperatures are oranger and rhetor. Unlike with astrophysics,
though, humans think of read things as warm and in that respect to sort of flocked I know
I didn't invent it even though refer to it as warm, it's actually colder and like temperature,
it's confusing. The sun clocks in at 6500 Kelvin so that's a nice baseline temperature
but when we want to relax humans actually prefer warmer colors. Yeah, the sun is cooler
warmer is to say more orangey. At the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
researchers used light temperatures and small body sensors to see how light temperatures
affected people's heart rate and physiology. Those daylight cooler whiter bluer temperatures
like 6500 Kelvin made people feel more alert. Meanwhile, the warmer orange or 3500 Kelvin
light made people feel more relaxed, candlelight and sunsets or even warmer light temperatures
at 1800 and 50 Kelvin and this totally fits with you. Think about places you like to relax,
warmly lit rooms, cozy restaurants, pubs, sometimes The effect is achieved with candles
or fires. But it might also be with Edison bulbs or string lights. You shouldn't see
my college dorm room y'all. There were so many be strobe lights, a little globe lights
and colors and stuff. It was crazy and they're all wired to remote so I can turn them on
and off. I was the coolest. I thought warm temperatures are another tenant of you. Good.
What is your office temperature like these days? I wouldn't know I work from home. But
in the US offices are recommended by OSHA to fall between 68 and 76 Fahrenheit 20 to
25 Celsius. But honestly, that's probably too cold for you. A small study by Cornell
found that people working at 68 degrees Fahrenheit made 44% more mistakes than it 77 Fahrenheit.
Yeah, we actually work better when it's just a bit warmer. And there's a sex based angle
here too, and that men tend to cool offices down whereas women prefer them warmer. And
in this case, the women have it right it's actually better for everyone even productivity.
Avoiding the cold also has harder science behind it. fMRI scans of the blood flow and
human brains That when people hold things that are cold, the part of our brain connected
to discomfort the insular cortex up in activity. In this scenario, people judged others as
more unfriendly, more chilly when they were holding cold things, and they would likely
rate people more positively if they held warm things. Temperature is super important when
being creative socializing and being open. When people were given little gifts for participation
in a study. Warmer humans like people who were in like warmer rooms or whatever were
more likely to give their gift away, give it to a friend suggesting it were warm. We
trust others more and we are more physically comfortable, but also more generous, warm
things might make us feel less lonely, more trusting and more open. There are a ton of
connections of physical warmth to emotional warmth. In a study from UCLA brain regions
that indicate physical warmth underpins social warmth as well. This explains why people crave
nice conversation and interaction when it's cold out. Research has also shown that looking
at a fire can help with cognition. restoration, which is important. After a long day spent
doing focused work related to the temperature in your home or office, you're probably going
to want to open up and chat more when it's warm and cozy inside and that coziness reinforces
social interaction and comfort. At the end of the day. Our brains are pretty simple,
not simple in like construction, but in the way we look at the world. We talk about conversations,
for example, that's being smooth or heavy. That's a weird abstraction, like if you think
about it, but we connect our physical perceptions to our intangible perceptions, because they
are, I'm actually can't believe it. Well, it says they're easier to grasp. This is called
embodiment, we use physical descriptors of non physical things, because we can better
conceptualize them. So warmer light and warmer temperatures both help us cozy up physically
and emotionally because those are connected and that encourages social behavior, which
wraps us in this like emotionally comforting blanket, but that's not all that he has going
for it It also is about sharing gratitude and interaction. The science behind the power
of social interaction cannot be understated. We are social animals and being positively
social makes us feel safe and comforted. Intentionally sharing a space with someone adds to that
for those who might be more cozy, conversationally challenged. There are books and games designed
to create the right feeling. And I'm sure you found a pub trivia night or a book club
or something that helps you be cozy and conversate at the same time. And that leads us to the
intentional interaction and gratitude part if you could call it the hugest bit hugest
bit, a big part of it is to share that cozy feeling with someone that you care about whether
that's a friend or a partner or a few of either of those, and doing it deliberately. According
to a Danish survey people believe a friend they can count on is more valuable than a
little extra disposable income and that is pure
Unknown Speaker 7:05 puka is very, it's just this baseline of safety
and comfort. And there being enough time and you I love being alone and completely comfortable
in your solitude. And which I which I am sometimes and or did you are with people that you actually
want to be with and then you can feel that they actually want to be with you. And that
they show that by not being on their phone or with Oh, if they're on their phones, like
let me show you this video. Let me show you this picture. So it's inclusive.
Trace Dominguez 7:40 Online Yoga is characterized by beautifully
lit photos of natural fibers and wood inside people's houses. And that's not far off, but
it's more of a commoditization of the concept. The most huge thing ever is not actually a
candlelit room padded with lambswool and filled with unlimited hot cocoa. It's more nuanced
than that. Humans are more relaxed and in better moods and hidden places lit with the
sort of golden light produced by fires and candles, you know, 3500 Kelvin or so people
tend to get along better with others and think more creatively under warm light and warmer
temperatures or 25 Celsius and varying the textures and surfaces in your home and breaking
up things with softer and natural fabrics and materials are all going to help you feel
more cozy at home, they're going to up your huge index. And all of these things are very
HGTV and I totally get that but varying the textures and surfaces in your home and breaking
up things with softer fabrics or natural fibers. Those are going to help you feel more cozy
in your house. You don't have to scatter it all over the place. But in certain parts of
it, it really does help. The most important bit is to share this with your friends or
your partner.
Unknown Speaker 8:45 You need comfort for who could to emerge.
I can do alone or with other people but it has to be people that I'm comfortable with.
If you are into extreme sports, then maybe you would find it boring, but maybe you would
also Like it if you had been out skiing, and then you come back and then there's who could
Trace Dominguez 9:04 kind of have people over to turn on a few
warm lamps and just talk to each other. That's it. If you're doing that you're hanging out
Unknown Speaker 9:12 and then you can be watching movies or you
can be reading together or playing a game or you can just be talking. It usually includes
like into summer would include cold food and drinks and wondered and usually include to
warm food and drinks.
Trace Dominguez 9:27 You can come with the smell of fresh cut grass
or sunscreen. That totally does it. For me, Cuba could be the feel of cold water or warm
sand on your toes. It could be the sweaters, log cabins and overstuffed couches at the
Midwest and Pacific Northwest autumn or rustic brick and rainy windows of the northeastern
summer it could be a sun shower in Florida the sound of the ocean and California could
be a cup of coffee on a cold day or freedo cappuccino and a hot summer picnic in the
park is just as humid as a cozy fireside chat. He isn't trapped in a wintry box nor is it
just one thing. It is way more than that
Unknown Speaker 10:01 usually also includes, I believe an aspect
of time after being enough time, so we're not in a hurry. When we get when we do something
you can. Sometimes it can be boring. If you're with people who think you should play a game
you don't want to play but then usually because the company is so good, and because the whole
atmosphere is good, it's still nice.
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to bring a friend be a little warmer. Have a happy holiday. Thanks for watching. I am
Trace. I hope you learned something from this video if you didn't share it with your friends,
and I'll see you in the future. That's my hot chocolate. There's really hot chocolate
in here. I'm not just doing this for like for the video. It's just delicious. Whoo steamed
up my
Unknown Speaker 12:26 glasses.
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