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How To Live the Good Life - Lessons From The Longest Study On Happiness | Dr. Robert Waldinger

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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The Importance of Having an External Social Group

In the last 10 years, we've been studying how relationships get into our bodies and change them. And it seems to be about stress and stress regulation that loneliness and social isolation are stressful. What we think happens is that if I have something upsetting happen and I can go home and talk to my wife or a friend, I can literally feel my body calm down as I share that stress with somebody else. People who are isolated, people who are lonely, we believe stay in a kind of chronic fight or flight mode.

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