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<div id="post_content" class="article_content"><p>Robert Waldinger directed a 75-year study looking at what
makes us happy. It boils down to three things, and they’re not the
things we tend to think are going to make us happy. <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness" target="_blank">His TED Talk about the study findings</a> challenges our most common life goals.</p><p>When you ask most people what would make them happy, their answers
tend to cluster around achievement. Maybe they think they’d be happier
if they were rich or famous. Or maybe they feel like success in their
careers would bring them true happiness.</p><p>Unlike many studies on happiness, <a href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu/psych/redbook/redbook-family-adult-01.htm" target="_blank">the Harvard Study of Health Development</a>
happened in real time. The researchers didn’t rely on memories of past
events. Instead, this project—passed down from research team to research
team for 75 years—followed a group of 724 men through their lives. They
were interviewed every two years, and got complete physicals at every
check-in.</p></div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br>Read more: <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/a-75-year-study-reveals-what-really-makes-us-happy.html#ixzz3xWfaXOGt">http://www.care2.com/greenliving/a-75-year-study-reveals-what-really-makes-us-happy.html#ixzz3xWfaXOGt</a><br></div></div></body></html>