Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 7 p.m. Via Zoom

The Good Life: A Conversation with Dr. Robert Waldinger, MD

Join us for a conversation with Robert Waldinger, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of The Good Life (Simon & Schuster, 2023), his best-selling book about the findings of the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted. Dr. Waldinger, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen priest, was also a high school classmate of AAUW member Julie Mackaman, who will talk with him about the Harvard study and then open the conversation up for questions from viewers.

Dr. Waldinger’s 12-minute presentation on TED Talks, delivered in 2015, has been viewed by over 40 million people and is one of the 10 most-watched TED talks ever. You can watch it here:

TED Talks: Robert Waldinger on What Makes a Good Life

And you can take the New York Times “Happiness Challenge,” a quiz with questions that Dr. Waldinger helped develop, here:

New York Times Well Desk: 7-Day Happiness Challenge