Robert Waldinger, MD, Author of “The Good Life”

Today, my guest is Robert Waldinger MD, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen priest. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted. Robert’s work was prominently featured on CBS Sunday Morning.

Robert is now expanding the Study to the next generation and how childhood experience reaches across decades to affect health and well-being in middle age. From this study, Bob has authored The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, which examines the central role of relationships in shaping a person’s health and well-being. His TEDx talk on this subject has received nearly 44 million views. Robert received his A.B. from Harvard College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.