Harvard's 75-Year Study: The Real Secret to a Happy Life

In 1938, a group of researchers at Harvard conducted one of the most incredible studies ever done. Listen to this. They started tracking the lives of 724 kids, seven or eight-year-olds, from all different backgrounds in the Boston area. They went to their schools, they went to their homes, they monitored their behavior, they listened to their conversation, they observed their interactions, they checked their blood, they scanned their brains, they documented every single detail of their life. They did this for 75 years. They tracked these kids for 75 years, a lifetime. It took them four generations of researchers to conduct to complete this study. Why? They wanted to find out, what is it exactly that keeps people happy and fulfilled as they go through life? In order to do that, they had to follow. The experiment had to be done in such a way where they followed these kids throughout their entire lives. Here's what they found. They found that those kids who had strong, positive, and healthy interpersonal relationships, they know them well, they know them well, they know them well, those kids were significantly happier than anyone else throughout their lives.