Dr. Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development that began in 1938, shares his takeaway from the 86-year-long study on The Mel Robbins Podcast:
The biggest takeaway is that the people who live the longest, stay the healthiest, and are the happiest are the people who have more relationships with other people and warmer relationships with other people. That the people who literally saw more people in a given week, the people who felt happier with their relationships actually lived years longer, and they stayed healthier. They didn’t develop the diseases of aging as soon, if they developed them at all, compared to people who were more isolated, who didn’t care about relationships.
