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We have reached the seventh and final day of the Happiness Challenge! Congratulations on your efforts to take care of your emotional, psychological, and physical health by building and strengthening your connections. You’ve assessed your social universe, made an eight-minute phone call (or two), chatted up someone you didn’t know, expressed your thanks, reached out to people at work, and put plans on the calendar. Now that we have the tools to improve our “social fitness,” the work of sustain...
Predicting how a future event will make us feel is known in psychology as affective forecasting - and most human beings are pretty lousy at it. "People are terrible at knowing what is good for them," said Dr. Bob Waldinger, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, "and we seem particularly bad at forecasting the benefits of relationships." It can be tempting to just stay home rather than socialize, said Dr. Waldinger, who is an author of the new book "The Good Life." "We'll think,...
I met one of my closest friends at a magazine I worked for years ago. At the time, she was a stranger who sat across from me in the world's most stupendously boring meeting. I felt her looking at me, and then she rolled her eyes. I smirked. A 30-year friendship was born. Workplace relationships are often overlooked, said Dr. Bob Waldinger, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an author of the new book "The Good Life," but they are vital. A 2022 report from Gallup showed that...
For today's exercise, we're going to get vulnerable and tell an important person in our lives how we feel about them. "Think about what they have done for you in your life," said Dr. Bob Waldinger, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the author of the new book "The Good Life." "Where, or who, would you be without them?" Happiness Challenge Day 4: Thank someone special Consider what you would thank this person for if you thought you would never see them again. Take a few...
