Meet the Author: Robert Waldinger

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Join Robert Waldinger, MD and Delia Kostner, PhD for our next Meet the Author event with Dan Jacobs, MD, and the online audience.

When & Where:

Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 7:30-9:00 PM, via Zoom

About the Book:

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their “captivating” (The Wall Street Journal) book, the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, show that the answer to these questions may be closer than you realize.

What makes a life fulfilling and meaningful? The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying, and healthier lives. In fact, the Harvard Study of Adult Development reveals that the strength of our connections with others can predict the health of both our bodies and our brains as we go through life.

The invaluable insights in this book emerge from the revealing personal stories of hundreds of participants in the Harvard Study as they were followed year after year for their entire adult lives, and this wisdom was bolstered by research findings from many other studies. Relationships in all their forms—friendships, romantic partnerships, families, coworkers, tennis partners, book club members, Bible study groups—all contribute to a happier, healthier life. And as The Good Life shows us, it’s never too late to strengthen the relationships you already have, and never too late to build new ones. The Good Life provides examples of how to do this.

Dr. Waldinger’s TED Talk about the Harvard Study, “What Makes a Good Life,” has been viewed more than 42 million times and is one of the ten most-watched TED talks ever. The Good Life has been praised by bestselling authors Jay Shetty “an empowering quest towards our greatest need: meaningful human connection”), Angela Duckworth (“In a crowded field of life advice...Schulz and Waldinger stand apart”), and happiness expert Laurie Santos (“Waldinger and Schulz are world experts on the counterintuitive things that make life meaningful”).

With “insightful [and] interesting” (Daniel Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness) life stories, The Good Life shows us how we can make our lives happier and more meaningful through our connections to others.

A New York Times Bestseller!

About the Author:

Robert Waldinger, MD, is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Zen priest. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever done. The Study has tracked the lives of 724 families for over 85 years and currently studies the Baby Boomer 2nd generation to understand how childhood experience reaches across decades to affect health and wellbeing in adulthood. He co-directs the Program In Psychodynamics, a teaching program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and he writes about what science can teach us about healthy human development.

Dr. Waldinger has won numerous awards for teaching and research, and his TED talk on lessons from the Harvard Study is one of the 10 most viewed talks in the history of TED. He has a private psychotherapy practice in Newton, and he also teaches Zen meditation in Newton (www.newtonzen.org) and internationally. More information can be found at www.robertwaldinger.com.

 

About the Moderator:

Delia Kostner, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Amherst, New Hampshire. She completed her psychoanalytic training at the PINE Psychoanalytic Institute and is currently a faculty member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Her research and writing interests currently encompass what psychoanalysis has to teach us about our current environmental crises. She is co-editor of a volume Climate and Beyond in the Consulting Room, to be published next year by Karnac: Firing the Mind." She is an amateur naturalist and avid outdoors person who spends much of her free time hiking and exploring the hills and mountains near her home.
 
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