The Key To Happiness, According To A Decades-Long Study
b'If you could change one thing in your life to become a happier person \\u2014 like your income, a job, your relationships or your health \\u2014 what would make the biggest difference?
That\'s the question Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Robert Waldinger has been attempting to answer through decades of research. He\'s the director of "the world\'s longest-running scientific study of happiness," and he spoke with Ari Shapiro about the factor that appears to make the biggest difference in people\'s lives.
Waldinger is a co-author of The Good Life: Lessons from the world\'s longest scientific study of happiness.
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