Mind-Enhancing Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness with Marc Schulz • 281
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
We will learn:
- How we can master challenges through mindfulness.
- Why it’s important to be radically curious about the world.
- The top findings for defining and creating happiness for yourself.
We all just want to be happy right?
But what actually contributes to happiness? Do external circumstances ever matter? Or is it always something we cultivate from within? Can external circumstances help us to cultivate it from within?
Thankfully, there has been an ongoing study around this topic for the last 80 years. Harvard’s Study of Adult Development is widely recognized as the world’s longest study on happiness and has provided a ton of information about what factors contribute to a fulfilling and happy life.
So today we’re talking about what was learned from Harvard’s longest study on happiness and how to apply it to our lives.
Our guest is Marc Schulz. He is the associate director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. He also directs the Data Science Program and previously chaired the psychology department and Clinical Developmental Psychology PhD program at Bryn Mawr. And He is a practicing therapist with postdoctoral training in health and clinical psychology at Harvard Medical School.
He is also the co-author of the book “The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study on Happiness”.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mind Love, episode 281. |
| 0:03.0 | Today's episode is all about mind enhancing lessons |
| 0:06.0 | from the longest scientific study on happiness ever conducted. |
| 0:10.0 | The link to wisdom is important because older people figure this out that as we get older, it turns out that we get happier at least from middle age into old age. |
| 0:20.0 | And one of the reasons why we think older people are happier is because they lean into the connections they have. |
| 0:26.2 | They're very important to them because probably because they're threatened, right? There's a recognition that people won't be around forever, |
| 0:33.3 | that I may not be around forever. |
| 0:35.5 | And that limited sort of life horizon |
| 0:38.0 | makes people value connections to others even more. |
| 0:41.1 | So they lean into their existing relationships. They try hard to cultivate |
| 0:44.9 | them. And that's a real important kind of factor of resilience for people as they age. Turn up your frequency with mind love. |
| 0:57.0 | Bites-sized brain hacks for seekers, dreamers, and doers. |
| 1:01.0 | It's time to give your mind a little love with your host, Melissa Monte. |
| 1:07.0 | If this is your first time giving your mind a little love, don't forget to hit the |
| 1:16.9 | subscribe button. Mind love is a habit and the more you give your mind that love and |
| 1:21.7 | intention, the better you'll feel about yourself and your life. |
| 1:25.3 | Plus, it's really a win-win because more subscribers means mind love attracts even more amazing guests |
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| 1:36.1 | We all just want to be happy, right? We might think we want more money or we want to find |
| 1:42.3 | love or we want to have kids but why it's because we think it will |
| 1:47.3 | make us happier in all of my years in the self-development space I cannot tell you how many |
| 1:52.3 | times I've heard |
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