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What is the Secret to Happiness? Harvard's 80 Year Old Study's Findings

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In the late 1930s, Harvard researchers began an unprecedented study: tracking hundreds of people across their entire lives to answer a deceptively simple question: what makes us happy? For more than eight decades, through wars, marriages, careers, illnesses, triumphs, and heartbreaks, scientists followed participants from youth to old age, gathering tens of thousands of data points in what became the longest-running study of human happiness ever conducted.   DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast ADVERTISE: https://www.historyshortspodcast.com/advertise  LEARN MORE: https://www.historyshortspodcast.com/ SPONSORED BY: https://www.podcastrepublic.net/get-it-now 

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