Harvard study reveals the secret to long-term happiness
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Harvard's "Study of Adult Development" followed two groups of men over eighty years to "identify the psychosocial predictors of healthy aging." They discovered that good, quality relationships “keep us happier and healthier.” However, in the Daily Article for January 10, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum posits that “there is one relationship that is most crucial to our flourishing.”
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| 0:00.0 | A cultural tsunami is about to hit our shores, and its waves are already crashing. |
| 0:07.0 | These are tidal waves of opposition Christians will face for our faith, and we want to help you and those you love be ready for them. |
| 0:17.0 | This is why Dr. Jim Denison has written his latest and most pivotal book to date, |
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| 0:31.0 | thecomingsunami.com. That's thecomingsunami.com. In the coming tsunami, Dr. Denison identifies the four cultural earthquakes |
| 0:42.3 | that have created these tidal waves of opposition. |
| 0:46.6 | Because if we can recognize the enormous danger they represent, |
| 0:51.8 | we can take proactive, biblical steps to redeem the challenges as |
| 0:56.7 | opportunity for God's word and grace. But we must act now. This is why we invite you to |
| 1:04.4 | pre-order your copy of the coming tsunami today at thecomingsunami.com. Again, that's thecoming tsunami.com. May God use this |
| 1:16.4 | powerful resource to help you and those you love be ready for the coming waves of threat and opposition |
| 1:22.2 | we will face as believers. This is the Daily Article podcast for Monday, January 10th, 2022. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim |
| 1:37.5 | Denison. |
| 1:39.1 | Harvard's study of adult development followed two groups of men over 80 years to identify the psychosocial |
| 1:46.9 | predictors of healthy aging. Beginning before World War II, they interacted with over 700 |
| 1:53.8 | men as they scrutinized blood samples, performed brain scans, and collated surveys. |
| 2:06.8 | According to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, the director of the research project, and I quote, |
| 2:11.8 | the clearest message that we get from this 80-year study is this, |
| 2:27.2 | good relationships keep us happier and healthier, period, end quote. However, as Dr. Waldinger clarifies, it's the quality of your close relationships that matter, not the quantity. |
| 2:36.1 | Here's what the Harvard study overlooked. There is one relationship that is the most crucial to our flourishing. |
| 2:42.8 | According to a report published last month in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, |
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