Dr. Robert Waldinger

He said, attention is the most basic form of love.

That's what I'd like people to take away.

Oh, that it changed the way they're living their life.

I mean, that was like, whoa.

Because people have talked about how they've started treating their relationships differently.

And the reason I gave the TED Talk is because it began to dawn on me that we were –

publishing these findings in journals that nobody reads nobody yeah and so we had all this information and we were hiding it and so so it seemed to me imperative that that we take all this information and bring it to people who could use it so important and you know this is what's so good in your in the book you say to the families um we were born into and the families we've helped create right yeah which is kind of an amazing yeah i just love it right number three what scares you most about your work

that people will stop doing it.

Not my work, but that people will stop studying the general arc of human life and what helps people thrive.

Because it's big and messy, it's hard to study, it's expensive.

But I really want people to do it because we learn things that can matter so much for- So important.

Thriving.

Yeah.

Ooh, I got tearful last night.

I went to see an amazing performance.

Do you know the actor, Matthew Reese?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He did the Americans.