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From "What Makes Us Happy?" in the June 2009 Atlantic magazine:

In an interview in the March 2008 newsletter to the Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was asked, “What have you learned from the Grant Study men?” Vaillant’s response: “That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

Edit: an LJ friend pointed out that the article was in the Atlantic, not Harper's, and I corrected.

Comments

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Good points...I think it is interesting, though, to start with a group of people who are privileged enough that many would think that they would just automatically be happy. With advantages such as they had, why wouldn't they be happy, right? But having privilege isn't an automatic indicator of life happiness, just as the lack of privilege isn't an automatic indicator of unhappiness, and it's interesting to see that quantified.