Worth the time…
Readers, I will occasionally be offering links to articles or stories that I think are worth your time. And this essay definitely falls into that category.
Writer Joshua Wolf Shenk has done a first-rate job telling the story of an amazing study into the nature of happiness, and the complexity of the human soul, in the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly.
“Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George Vaillant.
It takes 20 minutes to read this essay, but what it has to say about living a good life will stay with you far longer. Well worth your time.
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