49 min
05: The role of social connections in making you happy and healthy with Professor Robert Waldinger Clear the air
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- Mental Health
Professor Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen practitioner. He is the Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest-running studies of adult life ever done. With 22 million views, his TED talk is one of the most viewed talks of all time.
If you have ever struggled with loneliness, building new social connections or maintaining positive relationships in your personal life or at work, this episode provides very practical steps you can take to address these challenges.
In this episode, we really dive deep into answering the following thorny questions:
1. Three tips on how to make new friends or form positive social connections.
2. What can I do if I am feeling lonely?
3. Determining the difference between online vs offline social interactions and relationship quality vs quantity.
4. What is the most common reason friendships end?
5. How to create workplace environments that foster positive connections and culture in the context of remote work.
6. Why better social connections at work leads to higher employee engagement and retention.
7. Explaining why the fundamental of good relationships is based on affection and respect.
8. Do conflict exist in positive relationships?
9. How do I determine if I should leave a relationship or not?
10. What do I do when I am in a relationship with a narcissistic person?
11. What extra things do you consider when you are in a toxic relationship and children are involved?
12. What is the difference between happiness and wellbeing?
13. Is it ok to not be happy all the time?
14. Should we do things to chase happiness?
15. How do I prevent bad things that happened in my past from repeating in the future?
16. What is the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) on whether the person will have positive wellbeing in the future as an adult?
17. What were the research findings from the longest research on human development and wellbeing?
Learn more about Robert Waldinger
https://www.lifespanresearch.org/
Have a burning question about mental health that you want us to answer?
Email us at contact@myclearhead.com, or visit our website: www.myclearhead.com
Professor Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen practitioner. He is the Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest-running studies of adult life ever done. With 22 million views, his TED talk is one of the most viewed talks of all time.
If you have ever struggled with loneliness, building new social connections or maintaining positive relationships in your personal life or at work, this episode provides very practical steps you can take to address these challenges.
In this episode, we really dive deep into answering the following thorny questions:
1. Three tips on how to make new friends or form positive social connections.
2. What can I do if I am feeling lonely?
3. Determining the difference between online vs offline social interactions and relationship quality vs quantity.
4. What is the most common reason friendships end?
5. How to create workplace environments that foster positive connections and culture in the context of remote work.
6. Why better social connections at work leads to higher employee engagement and retention.
7. Explaining why the fundamental of good relationships is based on affection and respect.
8. Do conflict exist in positive relationships?
9. How do I determine if I should leave a relationship or not?
10. What do I do when I am in a relationship with a narcissistic person?
11. What extra things do you consider when you are in a toxic relationship and children are involved?
12. What is the difference between happiness and wellbeing?
13. Is it ok to not be happy all the time?
14. Should we do things to chase happiness?
15. How do I prevent bad things that happened in my past from repeating in the future?
16. What is the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) on whether the person will have positive wellbeing in the future as an adult?
17. What were the research findings from the longest research on human development and wellbeing?
Learn more about Robert Waldinger
https://www.lifespanresearch.org/
Have a burning question about mental health that you want us to answer?
Email us at contact@myclearhead.com, or visit our website: www.myclearhead.com
49 min