Wendy Zuckerman

But then...

This new study came out that found it's not so simple and that actually...

If you are a happy person, then making more and more and more and more money does actually boost your happiness a little bit.

But the thing is, what this new study found is that if you were unhappy to begin with, then making more and more and more and more money, that did not help.

Bob, what did you find in the Harvard study?

When you look at some of the happiest people in the study, is there a person that springs to mind?

I love that.

I love that as a message because so many of the messages that you get now around happiness have to do with, you know, you want the most likes on social media.

You want this, you want that.

No, that's right.

We should all just have a little Leo in us, I feel like.

You asked one of the questions in the study is one that I feel like it always kind of breaks my heart every time I read this, but it's asking people as they were older, as you look back on your life, what do you wish you had done less of before?

What do you wish you'd done more of?

What do people tend to say?

It's true.

It's so empty.

Yeah.

So, Bob, I guess my last question is...

If there is just one message from this research, from this impressive study, what would you want it to be?

That was my interview with Professor Bob Waldinger.