Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Zen priest. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever done. The Study tracked the lives of two groups of men for over 78 years and now follows their Baby Boomer children to understand how childhood experience reaches across decades to affect health and wellbeing in middle age. He writes about what science and Zen can teach us about healthy human development. Dr. Waldinger is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books. He directs a teaching program in psychotherapy for psychiatry residents at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and he is a transmitted teacher in Boundless Way Zen. His TED talk on lessons from the longest study of happiness has had over 12 million views and is the fastest spreading talk in the history of TEDx events. Research updates and Dr. Waldinger’s writings can be found at www.robertwaldinger.com.