What makes us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you want to invest in “the good life,” where should you put your time and energy? Robert Waldinger answers these questions with lessons learned from a 75-year-long study of adult life that started in the late 1930s and continues to this day.
Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Zen priest. He directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and teaches at Harvard Medical School.
Robert Waldinger took over the more than 75-year-long Grant Study in 2003, becoming the fourth person to run it.
Waldinger felt it was important to do it. The federal government had spent millions on the study for decades, but everyday taxpayers didn’t really know what was discovered.
And there’s certainly an appetite for knowing what makes a good life. His TedTalk on it that has been viewed more than 6.5 million times since November 2015.
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