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What decades of research tells us about living the good life
Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life. You might be wondering how we can be so sure that...
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Oct 225 min read
BlogLiving the Good life: Q&A with Harvard Psychiatrist and TEDx Phenom Dr. Robert Waldinger
What makes for a happy life? It’s a question we all ask ourselves and continually make strides to answer in different ways and by new...
Oct 222 min read
This is the One Secret You Need to Live a Fulfilling Life
In this day and age, many fall into the trap of defining their self-worth by 401(k) plans and followers on social media—and you could be...
Oct 225 min read
Give Yourself the Gift of a Good Life: Advice from Harvard’s Top Happiness Researcher
As he’s shared in things like his hugely popular TED talk, “What Makes a Good Life? Lessons From the Longest Study on Happiness,” Robert...
Oct 224 min read
What Harvard’s Study of Adult Development Reveals about Happiness
The United Nations is celebrating the International Day of Happiness today, and if you’ve ever wondered how to live a long, successful,...
Oct 224 min read
Are Friends the Key to Happiness?
IN THE WORLD OF science, a longitudinal study is a research method in which the same group of subjects is observed and measured over a...
Oct 222 min read
What to Do About Those Difficult Relationships at the Holidays?
Whether you find it a season of joy, a season of dread, or something in between, the holidays often involve gatherings with “difficult”...
Oct 224 min read
Why It’s So Tempting to Build Walls and Shut People Out (And What To Do Instead)
Remember the thrill of building walls as a kid? Forts made from snow, or a giant cardboard box. Burying ourselves in blankets and...
Oct 224 min read
How a Happy Relationship Can Help Your Health
By American Heart Association News Eighties rocker Huey Lewis was right: The power of love is a curious thing, and it might just save...
Oct 2210 min read
Awakening my Heart Essays, Articles and Interviews on the Buddhist Life
A Zen Priest at Harvard Finds the Key to Happiness By Andrea Miller What makes life worth living? What really makes us happy? As a Zen...
Oct 225 min read
Social Distance Makes the Heart Grow Lonelier
HARVARD EXPERTS DISCUSS WAYS TO EASE THE RISING SENSE OF ISOLATION AND FEEL MORE CONNECTED This is part of our Coronavirus Update series...
Oct 224 min read
36 Questions to Help You Live Longer
DIANA RAU CONTRIBUTOR COFOUNDER, CXO AT TWINE 2020 marks the 82nd year that researchers at Harvard University began following 724 college...
Oct 223 min read
The hazards of “heroism” in the time of COVID-19
This is a piece Dr. Robert Waldinger wrote for the World Economic Forum’s website , published on July 21, 2020 The word “hero” has been...
Oct 224 min read
How to Protect Yourself from the Stress of Politics
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS We interrupt your latest binge of breaking political news, fear-provoking campaign commercials and angry...
Oct 2210 min read
Canaries Don’t Belong in Coal Mines
By Heather Schmidt, DO, Nicole DeWitt, MA, and Tom Bushlack, PhD The phrase “canary in the coal mine” is used to describe an early...
Oct 224 min read
Counting The Days – How many weeks are in a life?
When in our lives have we ever been so aware of time? In the last two years, through the many phases of the pandemic, it seems time has...
Oct 224 min read
The Great Redirection
In 2016 Michael Carlin was a successful lawyer in Ann Arbor, Michigan bringing immigration cases as high as the Supreme Court. Now, just...
Oct 227 min read
Our Epidemic of Loneliness
How many people are in your life? How many people do you see and speak to almost every day? Perhaps a partner and children, maybe...
Oct 222 min read
How to Get Your Head Out of the Sand
It’s there in productive offices and destructive ones, healthy relationships and harmful ones. It must be embraced, if not cultivated,...
Oct 221 min read
5 Lessons from a Conversation With a World-Renowned Happiness Expert | Saahil Bloom
One of the great joys of my life is that I get to spend time with some of the world's foremost experts and builders and call it work....
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