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FranklinCovey On Leadership

Robert Waldinger: Living the Good Life

FranklinCovey On Leadership

FranklinCovey

Management, Business

4.6215 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Episode 305 | The factors that contribute to a happy and healthy life are not a mystery—despite how we often feel. Psychiatrist and lead author of the book The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Largest Scientific Study of Happiness, Dr. Bob Waldinger, shares a few key findings from the study that has been ongoing for 85 years. One of the key findings is that the quality of relationships is the strongest predictor of happiness and health, even more so than factors like cholesterol levels or blood pressure. Dr. Waldinger emphasize the importance of fostering warm and connected relationships, both in personal and professional settings. He also discusses the prevalence of loneliness and the need for curiosity and generosity in building relationships. Waldinger advises taking small risks and finding ways to be present in the moment as a means of improving social connections. 7 Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Team: Use our toolkit to build trust necessary to propel your organization forward.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's twice weekly podcast on leadership with Scott

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Miller.

0:16.7

That's me, your host.

0:17.7

I'm privileged to serve twice a week now as the interviewer with profound interviews

0:22.3

from thought leaders across all industries that share a common passion with Franklin Covey

0:27.9

and that is making you a better leader.

0:31.3

Whether it is a leader at your executive level, perhaps on a board of directors, maybe

0:35.3

you are the leader of a midsize company or midway through your career trajectory, perhaps

0:42.7

you're an entrepreneur, a solar entrepreneur or an entrepreneur, or maybe you're just simply

0:46.9

but very vitally leading your family.

0:50.1

You have something in common with us and that is you recognize that every company is

0:54.3

now a technology company and every business is in the same business, they're in the people

0:59.5

business and we believe that what leaders bring as their ultimate competitive advantage

1:04.7

to their organization is not primarily their education or their technical skills, it's

1:09.7

their ability to develop mutually beneficial relationships that all of us as leaders and

1:15.3

even individual contributors, our key contribution to our organization, to our vendors, our supply

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chain to our customers and our colleagues is our ability to foster great relationships.

1:29.0

When I'm out keynoteing, I talk to our clients that really is the key competency you bring

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to your company.

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Known often as soft skills, now we framed power skills, we have the Harvard Medical School

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Psychologist and researcher Dr. Bob Waldinger joining us today who is the lead author of

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the recent best-seller book, Simply Titled, The Good Life.

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