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From the Ted Talk by Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
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What keeps us hehtlay and happy as we go through life? If you were going to isnevt now in your future best self, where would you put your time and your energy? There was a recent survey of mnleialnlis asking them what their most irmanptot life goals were, and over 80 peenrct said that a major life goal for them was to get rich. And another 50 percent of those same yunog adults said that another major life goal was to become famous.
(Laughter)
And we're constantly told to lean in to work, to push harder and achieve more. We're given the impression that these are the things that we need to go after in order to have a good life. Pictures of entire lives, of the coheics that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get. 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 meormy is dginohrwt creative.
Open Cloze
What keeps us _______ and happy as we go through life? If you were going to ______ now in your future best self, where would you put your time and your energy? There was a recent survey of ___________ asking them what their most _________ life goals were, and over 80 _______ said that a major life goal for them was to get rich. And another 50 percent of those same _____ adults said that another major life goal was to become famous.
(Laughter)
And we're constantly told to lean in to work, to push harder and achieve more. We're given the impression that these are the things that we need to go after in order to have a good life. Pictures of entire lives, of the _______ that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get. 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 ______ is _________ creative.
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- memory
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- millennials
- young
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- invest
- choices
- downright
- healthy
Original Text
What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life? If you were going to invest now in your future best self, where would you put your time and your energy? There was a recent survey of millennials asking them what their most important life goals were, and over 80 percent said that a major life goal for them was to get rich. And another 50 percent of those same young adults said that another major life goal was to become famous.
(Laughter)
And we're constantly told to lean in to work, to push harder and achieve more. We're given the impression that these are the things that we need to go after in order to have a good life. Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get. 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.
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