Robert Waldinger shares Secret to Happiness | Robert J. Waldinger | TEDxBoston

Robert Waldinger interview by John Werner on how to get and stay satisfied in your every day life. A live conversation with Robert Waldinger MD who conducts the world’s longest scientific study on well-being and he’ll share research-based findings on how we can all achieve a lifetime of happiness. Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen priest. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever done. The Study tracked the lives of two groups of men for over 75 years, and it now follows their Baby Boomer children to understand how childhood experience reaches across decades to affect health and wellbeing in middle age. He writes about what science and Zen can teach us about healthy human development.Dr. Waldinger is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books. He teaches medical students and psychiatry residents at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and he is a Senior Dharma Teacher in Boundless Way Zen.To keep abreast of research findings, insights and more, visit robertwaldinger.com.

John Werner has created a career out of bringing ideas, networks and people together to generate powerful results.

John channels his passion and curiosity into cultivating platforms for thought and exchange. He is the Founder & CEO of ARIA, a community focused on the potential of augmented reality and the Blockchain+AI+Human, now called Imagination in Action, which takes place at the World Economic Forum in Davos and at MIT with MIT Professor Sandy Pentland. John is also the cofounder of TEDxMIT and founded Ideas in Action Inc., a non-profit that creates and produces TEDxBoston, whose talks have accumulated 300+ million YouTube views. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx