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Mental Illness Happy Hour

#626 The Science Of A Good Life - Dr Robert Waldinger

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist & a professor at Harvard Medical School who worked on an 85-year long study on what it takes to have a good life. His new book The Good Life expands on the results of that study and the science of relationships. 


More About Dr. Waldinger

To watch his TED Talk, click here (https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness?language=en).


This is a link to buy his upcoming book (https://www.amazon.com/Good-Life-Lessons-Scientific-Happiness/dp/198216669X).


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Miss Fit toys.

0:03.0

Welcome to episode 626 with my guest, Dr. Robert Waldinger.

0:07.7

I am Paul Gilmarten.

0:11.0

This here is the podcast I host.

0:14.1

I hope that's okay with you.

0:15.9

I don't know who this character is I'm doing,

0:18.8

but I think I need to get him back to the smoking lounge

0:22.4

that he's singing at the piano.

0:25.2

How are you?

0:26.3

The website for this show is metalpod.com.

0:30.3

Maybe I'm a little giddy because I got out of jury duty today.

0:34.9

Oh, sweet mama.

0:36.5

Oh, sweet mama.

0:38.5

It was three days, four days, four days of them picking a jury

0:44.8

from like, I don't know, 50 of us.

0:46.9

And it, oh, the people that are going to have to serve on that case,

0:53.9

there are, I'm not going to get into this specifics,

0:58.1

but there are two plaintiffs and two defendants

1:04.6

and one of them is a corporation

1:07.0

and it involves medical shit.

1:10.8

And they said it was going to be a six week,

1:15.4

a six week trial with, filled with technical medical jargon.

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