Page 11 - Harvard Study News Today

Researchers are exploring the impact of interactions with strangers and casual acquaintances. Their findings shed light on how seemingly fleeting conversations affect your happiness and well-being.

When you were between your 20s and 30s, what did you want out of life?  

On this episode, Jen Fisher, talks with Dr. Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a Zen Priest, about the study’s findings, and how friendships and relationships can influence our mental and physical health, both in our social and professional lives.

Zimbabwe's largest daily newspaper

For 80 years, researchers at Harvard have followed participants into old age, collecting data on their physical and mental health, jobs, relationships, etc.

A topic I am particularly passionate about is health, but not health in the way most people think about it. Health, contrary to popular belief, is not simply physical, and while exercise and nutrition are important, they actually play the smallest role in what influences our health. Whenever I say this, I always gets lots […]

When you were between your 20s and 30s, what did you want out of life? Depending upon your current age, this may take a moment to honestly recollect. Taking into account your current ability to reflect...

Click here to view this image from thedailytimes.com.

Lessons from teaching a class on meaning in medicine

The vast majority of happiness studies dont really tell us what we need to know about how to be happy in life and in our careers.