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Robert Waldinger

  • Ali Abidhas quoted2 years ago
    If you had to make one life choice, right now, to set yourself on the path to future health and happiness, what would it be?
  • Ali Abidhas quoted2 years ago
    These are common and practical goals that extend across generations and borders.
  • Ali Abidhas quoted2 years ago
    Success in life is often measured by title, salary, and recognition of achievement, even though most of us understand that these things do not necessarily make for a happy life on their own.
  • Ali Abidhas quoted2 years ago
    In our casual friendships, at work, and especially on social media, we tend to show each other idealized versions of ourselves. We present our game faces, and the comparison between what we see of each other and how we feel about ourselves leaves us with the sense that we’re missing out. As an old saying goes, We are always comparing our insides to other people’s outsides.
  • Ali Abidhas quoted2 years ago
    And it never strictly happens; instead, the good life unfolds, through time. It is a process. It includes turmoil, calm, lightness, burdens, struggles, achievements, setbacks, leaps forward, and terrible falls. And of course, the good life always ends in death.
  • Ali Abidhas quoted2 years ago
    Harvard Study of Adult Development,
  • Ali Abidhas quoted2 years ago
    The book is also threaded with wisdom from the recent and ancient past—enduring ideas that mirror and enrich modern scientific understandings of the human experience. It is a book primarily about the power of relationships, and it is deeply informed, appropriately, by the long and fruitful friendship of its authors.
  • hllohas quotedlast year
    well-adjusted men
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