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Bob Waldinger

Happy Place

CHAPTER

The Good Life and How to Live It

The Good Life and How to Live It is based around the longest study on happiness which is a Harvard study. So it started in 1938, where in our 85th year I'm the fourth director. We've since brought in spouses and children more than half of them are women but at the time they were just young men. The other study was started as a study of juvenile delinquency and particularly how some children did not become delinquents. Some children in the city of Boston from the poorest families and the most troubled families. These families were known to many social service agencies because of domestic violence, parental mental illness, physical illness. And the question was how if you're born into such terrible circumstances

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