You are not necessarily the expert on your own life.

"THE GOOD LIFE"
It is never too late to be happy
Robert Waldinger
Marc Schulz

This is not a self-help book, but a summary of the results of data from Harvard University's Study of Adult Development, which has tracked over 2,000 people for 84 years.

✔︎ To live a healthy and happy life, you need good relationships.

✔︎ Harvard Study of Adult Development
Cross-sectional studies and longitudinal studies
Longitudinal studies observe and analyze life over the passage of time.

✔︎ What is important is the "sense of being protected."

✔︎ Status, honor, and money are easily prioritized over other things that are important to life.

✔︎ The pursuit of goals itself becomes the objective, and people push forward toward goals without thinking deeply about the reasons for pursuing them.

✔︎ Everyone's life is a mixture of things that are beyond one's control and things that can be managed.

✔︎ The mind is the body, and the body is the mind.

✔︎ A wandering mind leads to unhappiness.
Multitasking places a heavy burden on the brain.

✔︎ An effective solution for nurturing human relationships is to use your time and attention for the time right in front of you.

✔︎ WISER model
①Watch ②Interpret ③Select ④Engage ⑤Reflect

✔︎ Plato
"Love is the name for the desire to be one, to be complete."

✔︎ The greater the increase in marital satisfaction after children leave home, the longer the lifespan.

✔︎ If the quality of your work changes, the quality of your life changes.

✔︎ Friendships do not reach out to us on their own. However, they do not grow on their own if left neglected.

✔︎ The presence of friends makes people healthy.

✔︎ It is never too late to be happy.

✔︎ You are not necessarily the expert on your own life.

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