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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

[outlawradio.livejournal.com]

That article was so amazing. Ironically my Mom recommended it, and she should know from unhappy Ivy league grads. *heh* But I'd head about it from David Brooks' oversimplifying butchery summary in the NYT this past week and was intrigued to read the real thing. Most interesting was how often alcoholism was a problem in the group simply because, with their wealth and connections, it was much harder for them to "hit bottom" when they were getting sloshed at the club every night. One of the failings mentioned in the comments above.

Here's to squeezing the hell out of that lemon!