Professor Bob Waldinger

I'll ask the audience.

I'll say, okay, take out your phone, think of somebody, text them.

And then during the Q&A, I'll say, did anybody get anything back?

And all these hands shoot up and people say, oh yeah.

And the reason for doing that is just to show us all that this is not heavy lifting.

This is not adding huge amounts of time to your day at all.

It's little small actions you could do every day.

You could do it on your commute, right?

You could do it while you're out jogging.

You could call someone.

You could invite someone to meet you at the gym to work out.

There are lots of ways to do this stuff.

Yeah.

Well, one interesting thing is that not all the Harvard men were well-adjusted.

And many of the inner-city men were very well-adjusted, even though they'd come from difficult backgrounds.

A lot had to do with what kind of supports they had.

So maybe they had one parent who was really consistent and loving.

And that was enough, right?

Or even an older sibling.

who was caring and took care of them, watched out for them.