How To Live The Good Life: Lessons From The Longest Study of Happiness with Dr. Robert J. Waldinger
The Lo Life
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5.0 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Robert J. Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest-running scientific study of adult life in history. Dr Waldinger's Ted Talk is one of top 10 most viewed lectures of all time with over 43 million views.
On today's show, he speaks candidly about the most common misconceptions about happiness, social media's affect on society, dating and the 3 steps you can take to live a fulfilled life. He also discusses the importance of "social fitness" and how to exercise it and the importance of understanding the influence of your childhood on your adult relationships.
This is an episode filled with golden nuggets of wisdom that will leave you feeling empowered going into 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:16.7 | Hello, bienvenito. Welcome one and all to a brand spanking new episode of the low-life podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed, hot mess of a host, Lorenzo von Rumpf. |
| 0:30.9 | And I'm so happy to be here with you today. |
| 0:33.5 | There's no place I'd rather be than right here with my low lifers, all nice and cozy. |
| 0:38.8 | I hope you had a beautiful holiday, a nice Christmas Eve, Hanukkah, Christmas Day, whatever you're celebrating. |
| 0:45.0 | I hope you enjoyed it with your friends, your family. |
| 0:47.7 | If it was a solo mission, that's nice too, a little self-care moment. |
| 0:51.1 | Nothing wrong with that. |
| 0:52.3 | If you had to work, that sucks. |
| 0:53.9 | But hopefully, you're relaxing right now. This is the weird time right after... little self-care moment. Nothing wrong with that. If you had to work, that sucks, but hopefully |
| 0:54.4 | you're relaxing right now. This is the weird time right after Christmas. Well, it's weird for me, |
| 0:59.8 | and my mental health usually takes a bit of a dip because this is like the purgatory time. |
| 1:04.1 | It's not quite Christmas. It's also not a new year yet. I'm not working right now. I have a few |
| 1:09.7 | days off. Really don't know what to do with |
| 1:12.0 | myself. I've been eating nothing but cheese and cookies and candy and tamales and washed it down with |
| 1:19.0 | tequila. Oh my God. I'm a mess. It's that weird time before the new year hits. And so |
| 1:26.3 | mental health-wise, let's talk about it. |
| 1:28.9 | Nobody asked, but my mental health score this week, on a scale of 1 to 10, I'm going to rate my mental health a solid 7.8, which is pretty damn good for me right now. |
| 1:39.0 | A 7.8, let's say that's like a 78%, let's say that which is a high sea average i'm feeling okay the holidays |
| 1:46.9 | this year were a bit bittersweet as much as i enjoyed the time with my family and stuff if you had to |
| 1:52.0 | deal with traveling any sort of traveling my heart goes out to you my kings and queens it's a nightmare |
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