They discuss the long-term study conducted by Dr. Robert Waldinger at Harvard Medical School, which explores the factors that contribute to a meaningful and happy life by following a group of people from their teenage years into old age.
What makes YOU happy? Dr. Robert Waldinger is the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, an 83-year-old project that tracks how life experience across decades affects health and wellbeing in middle age and beyond. Robert shares the surprising things he’s learned about what makes a meaningful life and what to do --or avoid-- in order to have a long, fulfilling existence.
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