The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

by Robert Waldinger

The good life is joyful… and challenging. Full of love, but also pain. 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.

human beings need nutrition, we need exercise, we need purpose, and we need each other.