Revisited: The Secret to Happiness with Harvard professor Robert Waldinger

You might know this because you are a psychiatrist. How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? One. Exactly. One, but the light bulb has to really want to change.

I love that joke. We all want to live a happy life. Of course. In fact, we want it so much that there is a whole cottage industry built around helping us find it. But what does a happy life actually look like?

In the 1930s, some Harvard scientists started tracking 724 teenagers. They kept detailed records about how they lived their lives and what gave them satisfaction. They tracked all 724 people for their entire lives. Only 10 of them are still living today and they are all in their hundreds. But just like the people the study tracked, the scientists got old too.

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