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‘Harvard Thinking’: Can people change? | The Harvard Gazette
One thing is certain in the new year — we’ll evolve, with or without resolutions. In podcast, experts consider our responsibility....
Dec 16, 20241 min read

What decades of research tells us about living the good life | Big Think
Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life. You might be wondering how we can be so sure that...
Oct 29, 20241 min read


BlogLiving the Good life: Q&A with Harvard Psychiatrist and TEDx Phenom Dr. Robert Waldinger
What makes for a happy life? It’s a question we all ask ourselves and continually make strides to answer in different ways and by new...
Oct 22, 20245 min read


This is the One Secret You Need to Live a Fulfilling Life
In this day and age, many fall into the trap of defining their self-worth by 401(k) plans and followers on social media—and you could be...
Oct 22, 20242 min read


Give Yourself the Gift of a Good Life: Advice from Harvard’s Top Happiness Researcher
As he’s shared in things like his hugely popular TED talk, “What Makes a Good Life? Lessons From the Longest Study on Happiness,” Robert...
Oct 22, 20245 min read


What Harvard’s Study of Adult Development Reveals about Happiness
The United Nations is celebrating the International Day of Happiness today, and if you’ve ever wondered how to live a long, successful,...
Oct 22, 20244 min read


Are Friends the Key to Happiness?
IN THE WORLD OF science, a longitudinal study is a research method in which the same group of subjects is observed and measured over a...
Oct 22, 20244 min read


What to Do About Those Difficult Relationships at the Holidays?
Whether you find it a season of joy, a season of dread, or something in between, the holidays often involve gatherings with “difficult”...
Oct 22, 20242 min read


Why It’s So Tempting to Build Walls and Shut People Out (And What To Do Instead)
Remember the thrill of building walls as a kid? Forts made from snow, or a giant cardboard box. Burying ourselves in blankets and...
Oct 22, 20244 min read


How a Happy Relationship Can Help Your Health
By American Heart Association News Eighties rocker Huey Lewis was right: The power of love is a curious thing, and it might just save...
Oct 22, 20244 min read


Awakening my Heart Essays, Articles and Interviews on the Buddhist Life
A Zen Priest at Harvard Finds the Key to Happiness By Andrea Miller What makes life worth living? What really makes us happy? As a Zen...
Oct 22, 202410 min read


Social Distance Makes the Heart Grow Lonelier
HARVARD EXPERTS DISCUSS WAYS TO EASE THE RISING SENSE OF ISOLATION AND FEEL MORE CONNECTED This is part of our Coronavirus Update series...
Oct 22, 20245 min read


36 Questions to Help You Live Longer
DIANA RAU CONTRIBUTOR COFOUNDER, CXO AT TWINE 2020 marks the 82nd year that researchers at Harvard University began following 724 college...
Oct 22, 20244 min read

The hazards of “heroism” in the time of COVID-19 | World Economic Forum
This is a piece Dr. Robert Waldinger wrote for the World Economic Forum’s website , published on July 21, 2020 The word “hero” has been...
Oct 22, 20243 min read


How to Protect Yourself from the Stress of Politics | American Heart Association News
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS We interrupt your latest binge of breaking political news, fear-provoking campaign commercials and angry...
Oct 22, 20244 min read

Canaries Don’t Belong in Coal Mines
By Heather Schmidt, DO, Nicole DeWitt, MA, and Tom Bushlack, PhD The phrase “canary in the coal mine” is used to describe an early...
Oct 22, 202410 min read


Counting The Days – How many weeks are in a life?
When in our lives have we ever been so aware of time? In the last two years, through the many phases of the pandemic, it seems time has...
Oct 22, 20244 min read


The Great Redirection
In 2016 Michael Carlin was a successful lawyer in Ann Arbor, Michigan bringing immigration cases as high as the Supreme Court. Now, just...
Oct 22, 20244 min read


Our Epidemic of Loneliness
How many people are in your life? How many people do you see and speak to almost every day? Perhaps a partner and children, maybe...
Oct 22, 20247 min read


How to Get Your Head Out of the Sand
It’s there in productive offices and destructive ones, healthy relationships and harmful ones. It must be embraced, if not cultivated,...
Oct 22, 20242 min read
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