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Key lessons from the world’s longest happiness study, with Prof Robert Waldinger

Instant Genius

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What Makes Men Happy?

It's very difficult to get a sample of people to tell you about their lives that is truly representative of the whole human race. And so we're always doing our best to approximate more representative samples, but we never get it exactly right. So in the sample you do have, have you noticed a difference between what makes men happy and what makes women happy? Yes, to some extent, what we thought was that women were much better at relationships than men. There are those gender differences, but they're not as great as one would think. Men actually get a bigger hit in years of life lived longer live than women. But the differences about the importance of relationships are just great.

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