What’s the secret to happiness? A Harvard Study believes it has found it

The Harvard Study of Adult Development has been monitoring participants’ lives and happiness levels for over 80 years, and now, it claims to have found the common denominator in happiness. The study’s director, Dr. Robert Waldinger, and associate director, Marc Schulz, joined Sue O’Connell to share what the key to a happy life is.

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[Dionysos]

I'll take the Epicurean definition: happiness is freedom from anxiety.

[DethWench]

There is a directional assumption relationships cause happiness, but what if happiness causes relationships? Those with conscientious personalities may appear happy and attract relationships. I think people with crappy personalities probably won’t get happier just by spreading their social toxin around. More Harvard Harvarding.

[a.mangla]

As Waldinger and Schulz aptly conclude, since the “need for connection is fundamental to a flourishing life, social fitness should be taught to children and be a central consideration in public policy right alongside exercise, diet, and other health recommendations.”