Quick Cut: S2E237 How to Live the Good Life with Dr. Robert Waldinger
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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What makes for a good life? According to the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the simple answer is relationships. In this episode, author and psychiatrist Dr. Robert Waldinger explains why building strong connections with other people helps us to have happier, healthier and longer lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
“The Good Life,” by Dr. Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
“Bowling Alone,” by Robert D. Putnam
“Wherever You Go, There You Are,” by Jon Kabat-Zinn
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“Warmer relationships really matter.” – Dr. Robert Waldinger
“Taking care of your relationships should be a fitness practice, just the way you take care of your body.” – Dr. Robert Waldinger
“How we use digital media affects either whether our well-being goes up or it goes down.” – Dr. Robert Waldinger
“We're sold all these ideas about what's supposed to make us happy and yet what we find is that social connections make us happy.” – Dr. Robert Waldinger
“Relationships are the greatest things in our life. And they're also the most difficult.” – Brian Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, the top of the morning here and welcome to It's a Good Life, where we are going to take It's a good life to a whole new level today. |
| 0:24.0 | As you know, I've brought many tremendous guests on this program over the years, |
| 0:28.0 | famous movie stars and athletes and business leaders and billionaires. |
| 0:32.0 | But I would say that this morning I and done some work and is part of some work that has been very very |
| 0:44.3 | influential in my life. Dr. Robert Waldinger. |
| 0:47.3 | Welcome to the show. We're delighted to have you. |
| 0:49.8 | Well I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:51.8 | It's gonna be great stuff. |
| 0:52.9 | Let's talk about the Harvard study of adult development. |
| 0:56.1 | Give us an overview of the study and what it is |
| 0:58.8 | and when it started and what you guys have been discovering. |
| 1:01.7 | Sure. 1938, we're in our 85th year. First of all, no study of any depth has |
| 1:09.3 | lasted for 85 years. It started as two studies that were both about thriving. Most research had |
| 1:16.7 | been about what goes wrong in human life so that we can help people. This was about what goes right. And it started with two groups that didn't even |
| 1:25.5 | know about each other. One was a group of Harvard College undergraduates who were chosen |
| 1:31.3 | by their professors as fine upstanding young men. |
| 1:34.3 | And so they were going to study, you know, normal development from |
| 1:38.4 | teenage years to young adulthood. |
| 1:40.3 | So of course if you want to study normal development you study all Harvard men right? |
| 1:44.8 | So that's not a great look these days but that was what they started with and then the |
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