The chapter highlights the importance of actively rebuilding social connections, especially in the context of the pandemic. It suggests reaching out to others, spending real-time together, and finding new ways to connect. Effort is needed to break free from isolation and make conscious plans with others.
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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