Ep. 1168: Robert Waldinger Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Zen priest. He is a clinical professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. He is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books. He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and teaches Harvard medical students and psychiatry residents. He is also a Senior Dharma Teacher in Boundless Way Zen.
The topic is his book The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Study of adult development
- The interpretation of 'the good life'
- Modern life today
- Emotional intimacy
- How warmth defines the good life
- How are fame and wealth winning?
- Steps to having a good life
Jump in!
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:25.7 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, |
| 0:48.8 | honest. That's my passion. My guest today is Robert Waldinger. He is a professor at Harvard. His new book is called The Good Life. What a great title. You hear that title and you know it's for you. And it is for you. It's for everyone. |
| 0:56.5 | Robert has been involved with the Harvard study of adult development, otherwise known as the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted. |
| 1:02.0 | Initiated in 1938 and ongoing, 724 families have participated. |
| 1:10.0 | Unbelievable buy-in to get this much scientific research about |
| 1:14.9 | happiness. And let's face it, we all need a little more happiness. If there's a secret |
| 1:21.0 | decoder ring, so to speak, that can get you into the mindset, get you into the understanding. |
| 1:27.9 | And Robert's work does that. |
| 1:30.8 | You're crazy not to take him up on it. |
| 1:33.1 | Without any further delay from me, let's jump right into my guest today, Robert Waldinger. |
| 1:37.9 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:55.6 | Thank you. Have you been to Asia? Yeah. I was in Shanghai for a meeting. I've been to South Asia. We were in Mumbai, actually, in the fall, and that was really wonderful, a great trip. But I haven't been elsewhere in Asia. |
| 2:03.1 | I would love to go. When I look at your background, just a little bit that I know, I have a |
| 2:07.9 | sneaky suspicion that you could find yourself into all kinds of interesting crevices and nooks. |
| 2:13.8 | Then you'd be like, oh my gosh, this is so cool. I always find, I guess for me, |
| 2:18.3 | especially Vietnam and Thailand, the Buddhist statues, the temples, I always feel like I'm |
| 2:26.6 | in another world. And I guess technically, I'm 8,000 miles away from you, so I am in another |
| 2:31.7 | world. Yeah, yeah. Actually, I'm mistaken. I have been |
| 2:36.1 | one place in Asia that I blanked out on Bhutan. I was in Bhutan just loved it in 2018. It was just a |
| 2:44.9 | magical place. That's an airport to land in, right? Oh, yeah. That's a landing. That's a little frightening, but so beautiful. |
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