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Barbara Anderson

What we women regret

The largest study on happiness conducted at Harvard revealed that at the end of life, we would have preferred not to act according to what. we would have preferred not to act according to what.
What we women regret

By Barbara Anderson
Who cares what I do?
Who cares what I say?
This is who I am, this is how I will stay
I will never change.
Alaska y Dinarama

What gives us happiness? This deep, personal and subjective question is not just any question. So many life decisions depend on it that it has become one of the most intensive and time-consuming topics of study at Harvard Medical School. of study at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. and Massachusetts General Hospital. 

For 85 years, they have been following the lives of 700 people to analyze the development of the development of adults and find out which factors determine "the level of human happiness". 

"It's good human relationships that make us happier and healthier. Period." This is the conclusion of the current head of this protocol, psychiatrist Robert Waldinger. He and another professor of psychology at the same university, Marc Schulz, published the book The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Study on Happiness.

Part of what they ask their community is, at the end of their lives, what they regret.

And here the results vary between men and women. 

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