Midweek Reset: On Meditation

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This week, Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and co-author of “The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness,” talks about the merits of meditation. As a Zen practitioner Waldinger says meditation has helped him stay present, connect with the richness of life and worry less about the things that really don’t matter.

This week, Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and co-author of “The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness,” talks about the merits of meditation. As a Zen practitioner Waldinger says meditation has helped him stay present, connect with the richness of life and worry less about the things that really don’t matter.


Robert Waldinger.  Photo by Katherine Taylor.

This episode of Life Examined with Robert Waldinger was originally broadcast January 28th, 2023

Credits

Guest:

  • Robert Waldinger - Author; psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital; professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; director, Harvard Study of Adult Development. - @robertwaldinger

Host:

Jonathan Bastian

Producer:

Andrea Brody