87 Year Study On What Provides Happiness = Relationships w/ Harvard Grant Study Director & Zen Master Robert Waldinger

87 Year Study On What Provides Happiness = Relationships w/ Harvard Grant Study Director & Zen Master Robert Waldinger

I want to start off by asking a question I continually interest myself with. Do we really want to be happy? If I survey the culture, it looks like we very much want happy moments. The little jolts of dopamine from entertainment, food, drugs and such. But do we really want deep and abiding happiness in our souls? Because if we do, then our primary interest would be in relationships. But not just any relationships. I’m revisiting a conversation I had with Robert Waldinger. Robert is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital which has been going on for 87 years. His devotion is on what most equates to human happiness, and the answer is, relationships. But let me point out that Robert himself is a Zen master and teaches meditation around the world. Which is a focus on what I feel is our first and most important relationship. The relationship with ourselves. I have continued to grow in appreciation, not just for the message, but for Robert himself. If you have my book, What Drives You, you’ll see his endorsement. Roberts book, which is how I came to know of him, is, The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study on Happiness. And you type in, “Robert Waldinger TED” you will find his TED talk, titled, What Makes A Good Life, that between postings on both YouTube and TED has over 80 million views. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episoder(1651)

Richard Leider: The Pope Of Purpose On How To Better Understand Your Callings and Gifts

Richard Leider: The Pope Of Purpose On How To Better Understand Your Callings and Gifts

Nothing drives us like a purpose. We love stories of epic circumstances that led to heroic acts. Whether it’s Martin Luther King or your favorite fictional superhero who saves the world. Yet most of u...

2 Aug 20241h 32min

Why We Love The Olympics & How We Can Emulate It In Our Own Lives

Why We Love The Olympics & How We Can Emulate It In Our Own Lives

We watch the Olympics because it inspires us. Watching people give it their all just touches us at a soul level. Being brought to the very limit of our ability and pulling through is a deep, human exp...

1 Aug 202411min

Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs - What If We Were All Rated?

Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs - What If We Were All Rated?

I’m taking aim at Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow first introduced the concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper, titled "A Theory of Human Motivation.” The point was to showcase t...

31 Jul 202414min

What Jerry Seinfeld Teaches Us About Our Current & Future Selves

What Jerry Seinfeld Teaches Us About Our Current & Future Selves

I’ve long been curious about the difference in our immediate drive and our future drive. I often refer to it as our appetites. We have the appetite of what I want right now, and what I want in the fut...

30 Jul 202411min

Bill Weir: Our Story Effects The Planet & How And Why To Do Anything That Matters

Bill Weir: Our Story Effects The Planet & How And Why To Do Anything That Matters

I’m more focused than ever on how our personal stories are what drives us. Part of my own story is care and concern for our planet. Not because I’m so altruistic, but I adore the outdoors. It’s my pla...

29 Jul 20241h 48min

What Attracts Us To Our Work vs What Keeps Us There

What Attracts Us To Our Work vs What Keeps Us There

We are driven to our work for many reasons. Those reasons we go into the job, the career, or the business are what dictate our overall happiness and success, yet most of us go after it for the wrong r...

26 Jul 20241h 13min

Start Your Journey To Wisdom By Shifting From Directing Yourself To Understanding Yourself

Start Your Journey To Wisdom By Shifting From Directing Yourself To Understanding Yourself

I’ve spent a lifetime labeled as a high achiever. High performer. I bet you have as well. We have become experts in doing things. Going after things. Getting things done. And there are benefits to thi...

25 Jul 202410min

Self-Protection: Why You Want To Admit To It & How To Balance It For Your Good

Self-Protection: Why You Want To Admit To It & How To Balance It For Your Good

Something happens in your life. A stimulus if you will. Something happens, somebody says or does something, and you have an immediate and uncontrollable reaction. Boom. This is natural and it is the h...

24 Jul 20249min

Populært innen Fakta

fastlegen
dine-penger-pengeradet
relasjonspodden-med-dora-thorhallsdottir-kjersti-idem
treningspodden
foreldreradet
jakt-og-fiskepodden
rss-strid-de-norske-borgerkrigene
smart-forklart
rss-sunn-okonomi
merry-quizmas
sinnsyn
gravid-uke-for-uke
fryktlos
hverdagspsyken
aldring-og-helse-podden
rss-adhd-i-klasserommet
rss-kunsten-a-leve
rss-mann-i-krise-med-sagen
rss-impressions-2
rss-kull