Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it’s not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer’s. But we have a way of understanding human life that you can’t get anywhere else, and it lays the foundation for important, actionable things. Robert J. Waldinger Read Quote
People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely. Robert J. Waldinger Read Quote
Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative. Robert J. Waldinger Read Quote
We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders. Robert J. Waldinger Read Quote
As we grow up, we’re constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self. Robert J. Waldinger Read Quote
Sibling relationships have been underemphasised in learning about child development. Robert J. Waldinger Read Quote
In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting. Robert J. Waldinger Read Quote
