Living Your Happiest Life

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How would you define a “good” life? Is it being married with kids? Traveling with friends? Basking in fame and fortune? The Harvard Study on Adult Development has spent nearly 90 years examining what makes people happy and healthy over a lifetime. The director of the study, Dr. Robert Waldinger, has shared the findings in his book, “The Good Life: Lessons from the Longest Scientific Study on Happiness.” He tells Dr. Sanjay Gupta why no one should expect to be happy all the time, and how men and women measure happiness differently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How successful would you say you've been in your career?
0:07.0	How many work days a year on average do you miss because of illness?
0:14.1	If given an opportunity to change your present occupation
0:18.4	without loss of income, would you do it?
0:23.0	Okay, I want you to be honest here.
0:25.0	Are these questions that you're hearing easy to answer?
0:29.0	What about these?
0:31.0	What type of house did you live in?
0:34.0	How neat and tidy was your home?
0:38.0	What are some of the social service agencies that have supported you and your family growing up.
0:47.0	Here's the deal.
0:48.0	These are some of the survey questions asked in Harvard's study on adult development.
0:53.7	It is the longest scientific study of human happiness,
0:57.5	and one of the only ones in history
0:59.0	to track the same people from their adolescence
1:02.2	into their 90s.
1:04.2	The man you hear talking, he's in charge of it.
1:07.4	That's Dr. Robert Waldinger.
1:09.2	He's a psychiatrist, a professor, and a Zen master.
1:13.0	No study has lasted 86 years.
1:16.0	That's just unheard of.
1:17.6	So to be able to follow entire lives
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