S2E125 How to Live the Good Life with Dr. Robert Waldinger
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
What makes for a good life? According to the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the simple answer is relationships. In this episode, author and psychiatrist Dr. Robert Waldinger explains why building strong connections with other people helps us to have happier, healthier and longer lives.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· Why social fitness matters.
· How to create community in the digital age.
· How the WISER model for communication works.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
“The Good Life,” by Dr. Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
“Bowling Alone,” by Robert D. Putnam
“Wherever You Go, There You Are,” by Jon Kabat-Zinn
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“Warmer relationships really matter.” – Dr. Robert Waldinger
“Taking care of your relationships should be a fitness practice, just the way you take care of your body.” – Dr. Robert Waldinger
“How we use digital media affects either whether our well-being goes up or it goes down.” – Dr. Robert Waldinger
“We're sold all these ideas about what's supposed to make us happy and yet what we find is that social connections make us happy.” – Dr. Robert Waldinger
“Relationships are the greatest things in our life. And they're also the most difficult.” – Brian Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, the podcast for entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing |
| 0:08.9 | yourself and your business. |
| 0:11.5 | Before we begin, I want to remind you about our ad-free option. |
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| 0:26.6 | Either way, continue listening to It's a Good Life and here's our man, Brian Baphini. |
| 0:36.2 | Well, the top of the morning here, and welcome to It's a Good Life. |
| 0:39.1 | Well, we are going to take It's a Good Life to a whole new level today. |
| 0:43.3 | As you know, I've brought many tremendous guests on this program over the years, |
| 0:47.5 | famous movie stars and athletes and business leaders and billionaires. |
| 0:52.4 | But I would say that this morning I woke up like it was Christmas morning. |
| 0:56.6 | Because I'm getting to interview somebody who's done some work and is part of some work that has |
| 1:02.6 | been very, very influential in my life. |
| 1:04.6 | So influential. |
| 1:05.4 | I'm actually sitting here in the studio looking at pages I've utilized in some of our seminars |
| 1:11.1 | and some of the findings of Dr. Robert Waldinger. |
| 1:14.2 | He is a brilliant man. |
| 1:16.2 | He's a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and he's a director of the Harvard |
| 1:21.0 | study of adult development. |
| 1:23.2 | And this is the longest running study of his kind. |
| 1:26.5 | He's going to tell you all about it, but it's basically studying what makes a good life. |
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