Dr. Robert Waldinger

And what you see is people doing it at all stages of life, including when they get to be very old.

And there are ways to do it, right?

Sociologists have studied what the easiest ways are to make new relationships.

Which are what?

Well, it's doing something you care about or you enjoy alongside the same other people again and again.

So, for example, like you join a club.

Like, what do we tell our kids when they go to a new school?

We say, join a club, right?

So you find something you like to do, and it's not necessarily even for the thing they're doing.

It's so that you meet other kids in a place where you have something in common.

And we can do the same, you know, volunteer for political activities, volunteer to help prevent climate change, join a football club.

I don't know.

You know, and if you go back again and again and you see the same people, you're more likely to strike up some conversations.

And there's a reason why these things become...

you know, wisdom that's handed down.

Even though we as the children don't want to listen, there's a reason why they keep saying it, right?

Because they've been tried and true methods of being happy and staying well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It breaks down our health.