Change Absolutely Everything With One Hack – Robert Waldinger, M.D. : 1010
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™… you’ll meet Robert Waldinger, M.D., who leads an extraordinary scientific study on happiness that’s still going strong after eight decades. The study set out to understand human health by what made people thrive.
Since 1938, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has tracked two groups of men and their families with the goal of discovering what really makes for a good life. Along the way, thousands of questions were asked, and hundreds of measurements were taken—from brain scans to blood work. Three strong themes emerged from the study:
- Social connections are really good for you. Loneliness kills.
- It’s the quality of your close relationships that matters.
- Good close relationships don’t just protect your body, they protect your brain.
Dr. Waldinger combined those lifelong case studies with modern psychological research in his new book, co-authored with Marc Schulz, Ph.D., “The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness." This discussion gives you real-life tools to hack your happiness. You’ll learn things like:
- how relationships improve your physical, mental and emotional health. (More than you know!)
- how to evaluate the effect of your relationships on your well-being. (Don’t be dragged down.)
- what social fitness is and how to practice it. (Yes, it’s a flex.)
- ways to enliven and energize your relationships. (Energy totally matters.)
- why casual and work relationships matter more than you think. (A surprisingly big contribution.)
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Don’t Miss This! Dr. Waldinger’s TEDtalk about the study is one of TED’s Top 10 episodes and viewed more than 43 million times.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:11.2 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.9 | I do my best on these shows to tell you what you're going to get out of the show before |
| 0:21.6 | the show, partly so that I can tell myself what to focus on, but also so that you can |
| 0:26.6 | decide that this one matters for you or that this doesn't matter for you. |
| 0:30.2 | In which case, there's literally a thousand other episodes of the human upgrade that you |
| 0:35.3 | could thumb through and find the one that's most important. |
| 0:38.2 | You don't have to listen to all thousand of them. |
| 0:39.9 | I'll still love you. |
| 0:41.9 | Today, you're going to learn about happiness from someone who's studied it extensively |
| 0:49.0 | as a science, looking at how relationships improve your physical impact in the world, |
| 0:55.4 | mental stuff, emotional stuff, and how that environmental variable, that part of biohacking, |
| 1:02.4 | that thing that you can control in your environment around you, which is the people around you, |
| 1:07.1 | how you do that to live a good and happy life. |
| 1:10.7 | How do you do that? |
| 1:12.2 | Well, Dr. Robert Wildinger is the director of the Harvard study of adult development at |
| 1:18.0 | Massachusetts General Hospital. |
| 1:20.8 | He's only the fourth director in the study's history. |
| 1:24.6 | This is something I've talked about on the show before. |
| 1:26.5 | I didn't think I'd get a chance to talk with Robert. |
| 1:29.6 | But since 1938, this study has been tracking two groups of men and their families to discover |
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