Happiness is a momentary thing. It comes and goes.

One of my teachers said, it's like

happiness is an accident, but we can make ourselves more accident-prone.

We can build a life that makes it more likely we'll be happy more of the time.

This is Dr Robert Waldinger.

He's going to tell you what you can do to find happiness.

What does he know?

Well, Dr Waldinger is the director of the world's longest running study of happiness,

the nearly 100 year long Harvard study of adult development.

Dr. Waldinger is bursting with evidence-based happiness tips and world-class expertise with

psychotherapy and boundless insight as a Zen priest? Clearly there is a ton to

unpack here a lot of which can be read in Bob's new book, The Good Life available now.

Join me in welcoming Dr. Robert Waldinger to the checkup with Dr. Mike.

I'm curious, what's been your experience in talking about the science that you're so passionate about with

the added tool of social media. Have you seen it as a positive, negative, or a neutral effect? I'm so unfamiliar with social media,

but I'm learning to be a little more familiar.

And basically, my sense is that putting out small messages can be useful if it gets people to take a deeper dive.

So the idea is to, you know, to peak the curiosity.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, I like that approach.

I think that's a good way to make use of short form content because now on social media there's so many different ways like

...