Bergen

For lovers of statistics, Bergen is one of the wettest parts of northern Europe, receiving a rainfall of 80 inches every year.

That's quite a lot to put up with. The thing was, I'd just travelled from Oslo, which gets only an average of 30 inches of rain annually. Before I came to Norway, luckily, I had taught myself a local mantra of Norwegian folks: Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær (it rhymes, I was told). In short, there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

It makes sense, doesn't it, that we'd want to control only what is within our control? That's also the essence of having a mature prefrontal cortex in our brain, capable of flexibility and adaptability.