This new essay, recently published in the Atlantic, is absolutely fantastic. David Brooks' column in the Times tipped me off to it, and fortunately I don't do shit at work anymore so I had the time to read it.
"What Makes Us Happy?" reports on some of the results of the Grant Study, a 70+ year-old longitudinal survey of nearly 300 former Harvard students and their lives and circumstances. Many of its results are paradoxical. For example: did you know that positive emotions make us more vulnerable than negative ones? Or that most of us can't "tolerate being loved"? Huh. Fancy that!
Anyway, I highly recommend it for anyone who has twenty minutes to kill. Its description of the Grant Study is super-interesting (JFK was one of the participants!), as is its profile of the study's current administrator, George Valliant. Go! Read it!!
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