Welcome to the Brain Health Revolution podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Cherzai.

In this episode, we had an amazing conversation with Dr. Mark Schultz, Associate Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development.

The Harvard Study of Adult Development is the longest Harvard study of adult development. The Harvard study of adult development is the

longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted. Yes, there is a study being conducted on happiness.

Radical for its time in 1938, the first of its kind study is now in its 84th year going strong with an 84% retention rate.

In his new book, The Good Life, co-authored by Dr. Robert Waldinger, Dr. Schultz explores the findings of the study so far and shares how we can proactively create happiness by focusing

on what keeps us healthy rather than what makes us sick. By coupling Harvard case studies with the

latest psychological research, Dr. Schultz illuminates the most common misconceptions about happiness,

what social fitness is and how to exercise it, how to understand the influence of our childhood on our adult relationships,

what we're likely getting wrong about achievement, and steps we can take if we want to live a good

life.

The good life will be out on January 10th,

2023 in bookstores around the nation.

We hope you enjoy this warm and wisdom-packed conversation as much as we did.

Thank you for joining us.

Dr. Schultz, it's so wonderful to meet you and to have you on our podcast. Welcome.

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.

So the topic that we're talking about is something that should be of interest to everyone.

And you've been working in this field.

And I think it's the most complicated of all human endeavors, the pursuit of happiness.

And it's one that I personally had a very unusual experience of it.

And in 2002, I was NIH at doing research on neurodegenerative diseases lived in Bethesda, beautiful place and then then right afterwards I was asked to go to

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