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What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

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What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.

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What is a relationship? Relationship most often refers to: Family relations and relatives: consanguinity. Interpersonal relationship, a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people. Correlation and dependence, relationships in mathematics and statistics between two variables or sets of data. Semantic relationship, an ontology component. Romance (love), a connection between two people driven by love and/or sexual attraction. Humans have a general desire to belong and to love, which is usually satisfied within an intimate relationship. Such relationships allow a social network for people to form strong emotional attachments.

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