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Reflections on what it means to live a good life—drawn from research, clinical work, and everyday experience.

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    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...

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    Debe ser el jefe amigo de su equipo

    EL atractivo de un líder admirable. El gran inversor y empresario Warren Buffett sugiere que, en vez de buscar una empresa o un trabajo...

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    Las buenas relaciones aportan mejor salud y una vida mas larga

    Robert Waldinger, psiquiatra, psicoanalista y maestro zen He pasado toda mi vida adulta en Harvard. Casado desde hace 35 años . Tengo dos...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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The ideas here are grounded in decades of scientific research. A small number of studies have shaped how we understand what makes a good life.

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