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Relationships More Important to Happiness Than Money or Success

According to an 80 year long study at Harvard, it has found good friends are more important to happiness than money or success.

I can totally agree with that. I think having good friends trumps money and or success.

This study - is one of the longest on adult life - It first started tracking 268 Harvard students during the Great Depression in 1938.

Eight decades later, researchers have revealed how happy we are in our relationships has a strong influence on happiness, and as a result, on our overall health. 

It was found that good friends protected people from mental and physical decline, and gave a better idea of how long someone's life will be than their social class, IQ or genes.

'The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health,' said Robert Waldinger, director of the study, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

'Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too. That, I think, is the revelation', he said.

Do you think good friends make you happy, rather than making a lot of money?!? 


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