Loneliness is as bad for your health as smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day or being obese. On average about 30% of people will tell you they're lonely. Do we have a relative sense that our relationships be ultimate stress buster? I don't think anybody has done those comparisons exactly, but there is a little bit of evidence there.
Dr. Robert Waldinger breaks down key insights on happiness gathered from the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The top stress regulator—and how to cultivate it in your life
2) Two big happiness myths to debunk
3) How to foster warm, authentic relationships with one question
Robert Waldinger is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital, and cofounder of the Lifespan Research Foundation. Dr. Waldinger received his AB from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and he directs a psychotherapy teaching program for Harvard psychiatry residents.
He is also a Zen master (Roshi) and teaches meditation in New England and around the world. Robert is the co-author of the book The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study on Happiness.