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#578 - Dr Robert Waldinger - Lessons From The World's Longest Study On Happiness

Modern Wisdom

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Are You Ticklish?

This isn't just self-rated happiness. How much do you want to go? No, not at all. And in fact, what I love about this is it's kind of a history of science because we're drawing blood for DNA and mRNA. Those things weren't even imagined in 1938 when the study began. So what we love is seeing ourselves bring new methods online to study the same things. Wasn't there some really stupid questions that you asked people? Whether someone's ticklish or not? Exactly. We still don't know why they asked, are you ticklish? But they did. They must have thought this was... Well, we didn't keep it in.

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