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Want to know the secrets of living a joyful life? Here's what the longest study into human contentment can teach us…

There's no shortage of advice around when it comes to the business of being happy. But in The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Study on Happiness (Rider, £9.19), authors Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz have harnessed the data to show there are proven ways of reaching emotional wellbeing. The book looks at findings from the 80-year-long Harvard Study of Adult Development. The study began with 724 participants, then included their wives, and more than 1300 descendants of the initial group. ‘A huge range of factors contribute to a person's happiness,’ says Robert. ‘Rarely can a single factor be said with absolute confidence to cause any single result. ‘That said, if we had to take all 84 years of the Harvard study and boil it down to a single…

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