What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness | Robert Waldinger | TED Talks

What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life?

If you were going to invest now

in your best future self,

where would you put your time

and your energy?

There was a recent survey of Millenials

asking them what their most important

life goals were,

and over 80% said that the major life goal for them

was to get rich.

And another 50% of the same young adults

said that another major life goal was

to become famous.

And we're constantly told to lean into work

to push harder and achieve more.

We're given the impression that these are the things

that we go after in order to have a good life

Pictures of entire lifes, of the choices that people make

and how those choices work out for them

those pictures are almost impossible to get.