Love is the primary driver of happiness, and strong relationships cultivated over a lifetime are common among happy elderly individuals.

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First mentionedOct 2022

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Peter Attia· MD

the main focus of my work in happiness is the subject of Love um and part of the reason is because love is the nuclear fuel rods of Happiness if you want to know one thing about how to be happy happiness is Love full stop and there's a ton of longitudinal data that shows this there's a ton of data that shows you know people who were in their 80s and 90s who were really happy if you look back in their 20s and 30s and 40s and 50s what they all have in common is is strong relationships that they were cultivating and working on real love relationships in terms of romance and family and and real friends not just deal friends

Video226 ‒ The science of happiness | Arthur Brooks, Ph.D.

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