Why Good Relationships Are the Key to Living a Long and Happy Life with Robert Waldinger

We know so much about people that if we want to look at what predicts who's going to live longer and stay healthier, it's going to be blood pressure, it's going to be cholesterol, it's going to be those things. And what we began to find was that the strongest predictors were how satisfied we feel in our relationships with other people. Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true.

And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.

Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf. Imagine boiling down eight decades of science into one lesson.

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