Never Worry Alone | Dr. Robert Waldinger

It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey everybody, how are we doing? You are about to hear the conversation where I first received what I consider to be one of the best and most powerful pieces of life advice I've ever heard. Never worry alone.

Let me say that again. Never worry alone. In an individualistic, capitalistic society where technology is increasingly isolating and dividing us, you might be tempted to think that you need to suck it up and shoulder your own burdens. But as social animals, we are designed to work together, to worry together. That's how we got to the top of the food chain.

You've heard my spiel on this before. It's incredibly important to have good relationships. Today we're going to talk to the guy in charge of the world's longest scientific study of happiness. The Harvard Study of Adult Development has been running since 1938 and it has shed an enormous amount of light on to what actually works when it comes to human flourishing. And the headline that comes screaming out of these decades of data is

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