We know so much about people that if we want to look at what predicts who's going to live

longer and stay healthier, it's going to be blood pressure, it's going to be cholesterol,

it's going to be those things. And what we began to find was that the strongest predictors

were how satisfied we feel in our relationships with other people.

Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance

of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,

ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward

negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do,

we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,

our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,

how they feed their good wolf.

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with me, Dr. Andrew Farley. The beast raged against him, but he was not equal to the Lord of

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Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Robert Waldinger, a professor of psychiatry

at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General

Hospital, and co-founder of the Lifespan Research Foundation. He's a practicing psychiatrist and

psychoanalyst, and he directs a psychotherapy teaching program for Harvard Psychiatry Residence.

He is also a Zen Master or Rochy and teaches meditation in New England and all around the world.

He is co-author of the book The Good Life, Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study on Happiness.

Hi, Bob. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Great to be here.

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