Dr. Robert Waldinger
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coming up in this episode of Great Company.
I mean, I'm going to give you the simplest answer.
I would say it's
Hi, I'm Bob Waldinger and I'm in great company.
Dr. Robert Waldinger.
Director of the world's longest running study of happiness.
I'm the fourth director of the longest study of human life that's ever been done.
It started in the year 1938 with 724 teenagers.
Now in our 87th year, we want to know what helps people thrive.
What are the predictors of who's going to be happy and healthy as they go through their lives?
That just hadn't been done
What did the results show in the end?
They showed two big things.
The culture gives us this message, oh, if you get really rich, then you're going to be happy.
And it's not true.
There's research that showed that staying in a really terrible relationship is literally worse for your health.
Depletes your health.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
We studied these people their whole lives.