🎧 The Friend Zone

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In 1938, during the Great Depression, Harvard researchers decided to start tracking people to figure out what makes them happy and healthy.

Nearly a century later…. the findings shattered all assumptions about what creates a good life.

What started as following a small group has expanded into one of the world's most comprehensive studies on human happiness - now including multiple generations and data from hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

This study tracked participants through careers, marriages, failures, and triumphs.

Forget the money. Forget the fame. Forget even your genes.

The single biggest predictor of health and happiness? Your relationships.

"When we gathered together everything we knew about them about at age 50, it wasn't their middle-age cholesterol levels that predicted how they were going to grow old," said Robert Waldinger MD (Prof of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School) in a popular TED Talk.

"It was how satisfied they were in their relationships. The people who were the most satisfied in their relationships at age 50 were the healthiest at age 80."

If you haven’t read this week’s article on the Friend Zone - go-go-go!!

This podcast edition will be right here waiting for ya when you get back!

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