Can A 75-Year-Old Study Deliver Wisdom For All Of Us?
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Friday, June 10, 2016
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"We get carried away from the really important things, but we can remind each other what really matters. That's wisdom." — Robert Waldinger
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Part 5 of the TED Radio Hour episode Becoming Wise
About Robert Waldinger's TED Talk
Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger is the director of a 75-year-old study on happiness and satisfaction. He shares what he has learned, as well as his wisdom on how to find fulfillment.
About Robert Waldinger
Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger is the Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. The study has tracked the lives of two groups of men for over 75 years.
Dr. Waldinger is now expanding the study to the baby-boomer children of these men to understand how childhood experience reaches across decades to affect health and wellbeing in middle age.
Dr. Waldinger received his A.B. from Harvard College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books.
He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he teaches Harvard medical students and psychiatry residents, and he is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is also a Zen priest.
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