445 - The Secrets of Happiness & Longevity: Dan Buettner discusses Blue Zones

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Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Looking for the secret of happiness? Interested in the science of longevity? Dan Buettner is the man to follow. He’s written 4 New York Times bestselling books after researching “Blue Zones” — regions of the world where people live longer, happier and healthier lives and what they do differently. In this episode Marie interviews Dan about the world’s happiest people, and he shares what you can do to improve your day-to-day life, no matter where you live and what you do.

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0:00.0	Dan, thank you so much for making the time to be here.
0:03.6	So I'm a huge fan of your work.
0:05.6	I was telling you off camera that I saw a talk that you did and I went down in the Dan
0:09.7	Butner, Blue Zones, Rabbit Hole, I bought all of your books.
0:13.7	It was actually, it was really, really fun.
0:15.7	And after like working all day and being on the computer, it was a source of such joy for
0:19.9	me. I was like, oh, I'm getting to go into the blue zones again.
0:21.9	So let's take you back.
0:23.6	Tell us how you ended up for the past 15 years studying longevity and happiness.
0:28.6	How did you get here?
0:29.6	I've been a lifelong explorer, started out setting three world records for biking across
0:34.4	five continents, and eventually got with National Geographic, where I led
0:38.3	scientific expeditions to solve ancient mysteries. Why the Maya civilization collapsed? Did
0:43.7	Marco Polo go to China? And in the year 2000, I stumbled upon a very interesting report
0:49.5	from the World Health Organization that found that Okinawans have the longest disability-free life expectancy
0:56.0	in the world.
0:57.0	In other words, they live a really long time and they avoid the diseases that are killing us.
1:01.0	And I said, aha, that's a good mystery.
1:04.0	And so it's been since 2001 or so I've been you know, in a sense, reverse engineer longevity and
1:12.5	then later happiness.
1:13.6	Yeah.
1:14.6	So happiness, it is somewhat a nebulous term, right?
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