E246: 7 Life-changing Lessons From The Longest Ever Study On Human Happiness! Dr. Robert Waldinger

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Dr Waldinger is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the fourth director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. This is the longest every study of the same group of people over time, following 724 men for nearly 80 years. The study explores the factors that lead to healthy and happy lives. Robert is also the Founding Director of the Lifespan Research Foundation, which aims to implement the lessons learned from the Harvard Study in peoples work and personal life. His TED talk, “What makes a good life?” has been viewed over 40 million times.

In this conversation Robert and Steven discuss topics, such as:

What are the factors that make for a good life
The impacts that money and success have on a happy life
Why relationships are the most important factor for long term health and wellbeing
Why we should reexamine the value we place on relationships
How modern society gets in the way of connection

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We saw a video that you made. It punched me in the face.
0:03.4	The reason why my TED Talks went viral was because...
0:07.4	Dr. Robert Waldinger, a Harvard psychiatrist and director of...
0:10.4	The longest study ever done on what makes humans a puppy or unhappy lives.
0:14.6	This TED Talk is one of the most beautiful highs for 85 years.
0:19.2	We've tracked the lives of 724 families through their entire adult lives.
0:24.9	Looking at mental health, physical health, to see what really keeps people happy and healthy.
0:29.7	Some of the participants donated their brains.
0:32.0	But we know so much about them in life and now we get to examine their brains.
0:36.8	The most surprising finding in the study was that it's our relationships that keep us
0:41.1	healthier and happier. There is research that shows that actually people who are married
0:46.2	men live 12 years longer and women live 7 years longer. That said, it's not the marriage license.
0:52.9	It's about...
0:55.0	Starting in the 1950s, we stopped investing in other people.
0:59.3	Being lonely is as dangerous to your health as smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day.
1:05.5	Isolation can break down your coronary arteries, your joints, the brain declines sooner.
1:12.8	My mission now is going to be to bring this science that we've worked so hard to develop
1:18.2	and bring it to people in ways that they can use.
1:21.2	Looking at that research, what are the factors that made those relationships most successful?
1:26.0	Well, most surprising finding in the study was that...
1:39.9	Robert, who are you and what is the mission that you're on?
1:47.3	I am a psychiatrist. I'm a married father of two grown sons. I'm a Zen priest and I'm a researcher.
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