17min chapter

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The #1 key to happiness and living longer | Marc Schulz, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

CHAPTER

Navigating Social Connections Amid Life Transitions

The chapter explores how life transitions impact social networks and happiness, emphasizing the need to nurture relationships during key milestones like retirement, marriage, and divorce. Strategies to combat social isolation, such as intergenerational relationships and community programs, are discussed. Additionally, the positive impact of recreational activities like pickleball in fostering connections among individuals of different ages is highlighted.

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Speaker 2
to a successful job yeah run to a successful job is
Speaker 1
because they don't think they can run to a person and still be loved yeah if they told them the truth yeah and um you know
Speaker 3
I'll
Speaker 1
be married to Julia 24 years on May 1st beautiful and that girl is like my
Speaker 2
she could
Speaker 1
have ran for me I gave her a lot to run from yeah that's that's
Speaker 2
beyond us about that you know what I mean and
Speaker 1
and and it's not one-sided there yeah she gave me some stuff to run from to yeah yeah but you got to be committed to the vows you made absolutely I'm not talking about somebody I don't want to do the work yeah you
Speaker 2
know
Speaker 1
what I mean yeah I'm not talking about you telling Abby for a decade straight look that point look that point look that point look that point look that point look that point look that
Speaker 2
point you know what I mean yeah okay now I'm fam yeah right right right I'm gonna hug you the first time yeah yeah yeah brother he'll catch these hands you keep but I hug you ten times in a row fool give me your phone literally I'm gonna give you a bag full of quarters yeah and you're gonna find the only two payphones left in all of Tosa and that's what you're gonna be calling me from literally that's something you know you're gonna be calling me from a landline for the rest of
Speaker 1
your life so so so changes have to be made absolutely but people got to know
Speaker 2
that

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