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#578 - Dr Robert Waldinger - Lessons From The World's Longest Study On Happiness
Modern Wisdom
Optimizing for Hedonism or More for Eudaimonia?
Daniel Kahneman and Daniel Gilbert, two big psychologists from the last 50 years, said a good life is one which in retrospect, you are glad that you lived. For me, if I optimize for hedonism, I will spend a good bit of time reflecting on something which doesn't give me a massive amount of meaning in the moment. But there's another flavor of happiness that some researchers at Columbia University have begun to find. And they call it the psychologically rich life. So rather than prioritizing the pleasure I get right now from my golf game or the feeling that I am doing something meaningful by talking on this podcast with you,right, the udomonia? It's the psychologically
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