
What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from an 84 Year Study on Happiness
Offline with Jon Favreau
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Are You Happy Right Now?
In 1938, DNA wasn't even imagined. And here we were measuring it and DNA methylation. We're kind of a history of science in a way as we bring new methods online. So I imagine that from this study, you must have had so many data points about these participants. You could have focused on so many different areas of their lives. Why study happiness? Well, we studied well-being. It was all this huge inquiry into human thriving.
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