830: Lessons Learned from the World's Longest Scientific Study on Happiness with Dr. Robert Waldinger

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Robert Waldinger breaks down key insights on happiness gathered from the Harvard Study of Adult Development.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The top stress regulator—and how to cultivate it in your life

2) Two big happiness myths to debunk

3) How to foster warm, authentic relationships with one question

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— ABOUT ROBERT —

Robert Waldinger is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital, and cofounder of the Lifespan Research Foundation. Dr. Waldinger received his AB from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and he directs a psychotherapy teaching program for Harvard psychiatry residents.

He is also a Zen master (Roshi) and teaches meditation in New England and around the world. Robert is the co-author of the book The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study on Happiness.

• Book: The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

• Website: TheGoodLifeBook.com

• Study: AdultDevelopmentStudy.org

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Happiness is Love: Full Stop” by George E. Vaillant

• Article: “Why We Need Best Friends at Work” by Annemarie Mann

• Book: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

• Book: Pride & Prejudice (Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen

• Book: The Overstory by Richard Powers

• Book: Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide by Barry Magid

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.2	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.2	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.
0:19.2	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 830 with Dr. Robert Waldinger.
0:24.5	Bob has got a boatload of insight from the world's longest scientific study on happiness.
0:30.8	Maybe you've heard of this Harvard study. It's so awesome. We are going to dig into some of those
0:34.8	takeaways, which have huge impact for your work and your life. See, all the in one, the number one
0:40.7	stress regulator and how to cultivate it in your life. Two, a pair of the biggest happiness myths
0:46.8	to debug. And three, how to foster warm, authentic relationships with one key question.
0:52.1	And if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we
0:55.0	reference, please visit us over at awesometyourjob.com slash ep830. And if you haven't been awesometyourjob.com,
1:02.4	I've got a little bit to say one welcome new folks. I do see an influx of those around January,
1:09.4	historically. So I want to give a little bit of the spiel here. And loyal listeners, if you've
1:14.1	heard this a hundred times, please feel free to skip a minute or two. But here is the dillio.
1:20.0	One, I'm so thrilled you're here. Thank you. It's great to have you. If you want to get started,
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1:39.2	six of the key topic areas that we tend to cover a lot. So you get a nice little taste of what all
1:44.7	is going on here. I also recommend you check out the website awesometyourjob.com, which has a
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