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Podcast: Life Examined
Episode: In search of happiness: The secrets and science behind leading a good life
Description: *This episode originally aired on January 28, 2023.Jonathan Bastian talks with Harvard Medical School Professor of Psychiatry Robert Waldinger about his latest book, âThe Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.â Waldinger is also director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the home of the worldâs longest-running studies on happiness. The project has followed 724 men â ranging from âHarvard sophomores to inner-city Boston boysâ â and their subsequent spouses and families, since 1938, and now encompasses three generations of people. Waldinger says that although there is no blood test for happiness, researchers are able to examin...