The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
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- Create Date：2022-12-31 02:21:33
- Update Date：2025-09-08
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- Author：Robert Waldinger
- ISBN：198216669X
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Reviews
Patty Hagar
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The “World’s Longest Study on Happiness” revealed nothing surprising。 Happy humans need connection。 It’s an interesting collection of examples and quotes; more academic than inspiring。
Angie Boyter
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Good life is good friends， good family， good relationshipsEveryone wants to know what makes a happy and fulfilling life， but how do you find out？ As The Good Life says， “We are always comparing our insides to other people’s outsides”。 Harvard has been taking on this challenge in a study that began more than 80 years ago and has followed participants and their descendants ever since。 The present-day directors of the Harvard study provide the results， which found that good relationships of all sor Good life is good friends， good family， good relationshipsEveryone wants to know what makes a happy and fulfilling life， but how do you find out？ As The Good Life says， “We are always comparing our insides to other people’s outsides”。 Harvard has been taking on this challenge in a study that began more than 80 years ago and has followed participants and their descendants ever since。 The present-day directors of the Harvard study provide the results， which found that good relationships of all sorts are the key。The idea of a study to learn what makes people happy is very intriguing， I wanted to know how they designed such a study and what kinds of statistics they used。 I was a bit disappointed that there was not more information of this sort， although there were some interesting tidbits， such as the fact that one of the participants was President John F Kennedy， Jr。， who was a student at Harvard when the study began。 I also would have liked to see more information on other factors that contribute to happiness。The Good Life has general discussions of relationships， with information from many other studies and sources like Aristotle， Lewis Carroll， the US Department of Health and Human Services and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman。 There are separate chapters on intimate relationships， family relationships， relationships at work， and other relationships like your book group or the guy at your local drugstore。 My feeling as I finished the book was that there was interesting information about how important it was to have relationships but not really enough detail to be a practical guide。 Over the next few days， though， I had to change my mind。 My neighbor was telling me she had begun home-schooling her daughter because of bullying at school， and I brought up and we discussed how important it is to give her other sources of relationships。 I also returned an Amazon purchase at a local dropoff location and noted the employee looked rather bored。 I asked him how the refunds work， and we engaged in a short conversation about it。 He was much perkier when I left。 My neighbor and the store employee felt better， and so did I 。 This book made me both more aware of the importance of relationships and more likely to actively cultivate them。 I think the authors accomplished their goal。 I received an advance review copy of this book from Edelweiss and the publisher。 。。。more
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