When you have strong social connections,

create them, you create happiness.

And this happiness and the social connections together seem to create longevity.

I am Vichin Lachiani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers

and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas

and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.

Welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast. Our guest speaker today is gonna to be me. I'm going to be sharing with you a powerful

talk I shared at Aefest Sardinia, which was focused on the concept of human longevity. So A-Fest is a festival I put on once to twice every year and

last year in 2018 it happened in Sardinia which for any of you who are fans of ideas of longevity

know Sardinia is one of the blue zones of the world. fans of ideas of longevity know

Sardinia is one of the blue zones of the world.

It's a place where people live well into their hundreds and scientists have been

studying places like Sardinia and Okinawa to try to understand what makes people live so long.

So we held a festival there on the topic of longevity.

We had remarkable speakers from Ben Greenfield to Dr Harry Adelson, a stem cell pioneer to Jay Shetty, and it was a wonderful event.

Now my talk at this event was on how to create workspaces that promote longevity. I'm obsessed with the idea that works. that work can

can transform individuals, that work should not extract from us

but add to us and make us younger,

fitter, happier.

I believe that in an ideal workplace,

when you leave at 5 p.m. and you go home to your kids and family,

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