A good life isn't about achieving more. It's about loving more. It's about choosing connection

over busyness. It's about choosing kindness over convenience. It's about laughter over stress.

Hey, hey, let's talk about something big today. What does it mean to live a good life? Is it about success or wealth or finally figuring out how to fold a fitted sheet without losing your sanity? Side note, if you have figured that out, please email me. I will make you a guest on the show. Today, we are diving into lessons from the longest running scientific study on happiness ever done.

The Harvard study of adult development.

This study has been running for 86 years.

So it was tracking people's lives in incredible detail.

Imagine someone following you around for eight decades,

taking notes on everything from your cholesterol levels to how often you argue about who takes

out the trash. It's crazy, right? Now let's dive in. So here's the surprising part. The things

we often strive for, like career success or wealth or perfect health,

aren't the strongest predictors of a good life. Instead, it's actually all about relationships.

Now, this probably isn't all that shocking to you. As Christians, Jesus told us over and over again,

love God, love our neighbors. Relationships are at the heart of everything.

But I love it when science starts backing up what we already know to be true. They're a little

late to the game, but I love it. I love when the things that we know, the things we live out,

the things we preach, we get a Harvard study for 86 years going, you know what? It's like you guys were on to something

all along. I love it. So let's start with the big question. What does it mean to live a good life?

This is what that research decided to find out. So like I said, for 86 years, researchers at Harvard

followed two groups of men.

One group was made up of Harvard students, think future senators and CEOs, the other

a group of boys from some of Boston's toughest neighborhoods. And over time, they expanded the

children to include wives, imagine, including women. Women were allowed to go to Harvard

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