Even their close family members were also interviewed. Each participant was medically examined and interviewed. It tracked their personal relationships, conversations, health and medical records. The research closely studied their work lives and home lives. The researchers also observed their children’s study, the impact of early life in success and happiness. They scanned their broader lives, including triumphs and failures in careers and marriage. Over the years, researchers noted the participants’ health trajectories. And the second group had 456 boys from the poorest families of Boston. The first group had 268 men who attended Harvard University. That’s where most relationships take their last breath – in the last row of our priority list!Īlso Read: Health and Happiness belong to the 5 am club Research on good lifeĪ Harvard study tracked the lives of 724 men over a period of 75 years to study the associations of happiness.įor the study, The 724 men were divided into two groups. They push it to the last row of their priority list. But many people either take their relationships for granted. And embracing and attending to relations is also a form of self-care. In his Ted Talks, he also highlighted the importance of taking self-care. It’s not the quantity but the depth that counts! Developing a close bond of trust and affection protects the brain and body.
Robert Waldinger, also quoted that happiness is not about having a lot of friends or multiple relationships. The funda is simple, ‘The more secured and satisfied we are in our relationships the happier we will be’! His illustrious Ted Talk has received over 13,000,000 views.Īnd in that ted Talks, Robert Waldinger revealed that its good relations that account for happiness! He recorded his Ted Talk titled, “What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness,” in 2015.Īnd there he spoke about a 75 years-long-study conducted by the Harvard medical school that started in 1938. This study came to light when Robert Waldinger, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School gave a stirring speech at the Ted Talks. This is the flip side of the fact that loneliness kills! True bonds heal… The spotlight on good life! ‘Strong bonds make us happier and healthier’, the study concluded.
Is this the true meaning of happiness? If not, then what is?Ī Harvard study elucidates the right way to live a good life is by nourishing good relations. But the fact is that none of these can bring happiness.
The days are cranky and nights wasted!Ī recent survey revealed that 80 % of millennials want to get rich and 50% crave to be famous. Work, eat, sleep, mobile, family and repeat. Most people are leading their life in autopilot mode. We search for happiness in our career, family, relationships, hobbies, love and passion. We often try to see tiny bits of happiness in scattered spheres of our life. But what brings the true bliss of happiness? What makes a life well-lived? Money brings comfort, sex pleasure, success pride and fame recognition. We all pray for a good life, but what actually makes life good? Is it money or Sex? Is it a success or fame? A million-dollar house or a fleet of cars? Or something else? We spend our lives in a blind chase running after the illusions of health and happiness in material things. But there is one thing that’s common in every prayer. Others wish for the well-being of loved ones and some plead for success.
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