:哈佛医学教授TED演讲：什么样的人活得更美好（中英文）
Why is that so hard to get and so easy to ignore? Well, we’re human. What we really like is a quick fix - something we can get that will keep our lives good and keep them that way. Relationships are messy and they are complicated and they are hard work of tending to family and friends, that’s not sexy or glamorous. It’s also life-long. It never ends. The people in our 75-year study with the happiest retirement were the people who had actively worked to replace workmates with new playmates. Just like the millennials in that recent survey, many of our men when they were starting out as young adults, really believed that fame and wealth and high achievements were what they needed to go after to have a good life. But over and over, over these 75 years, our study has shown that the people who fared the best are people who leaned into relationships, with family, with friends, with community.
那么你们呢？假如你们今年25，或者你们40，或者你们60岁。投入关系对你们来说是什么样的？可能性可能是无限的。也许是简单到拿和屏幕打交道的时间来和人打交道，或者通过一起做点什么新鲜事，比如散步或者约会，或者联系那个多年来不曾说过话的人，来点亮一段死气沉沉的关系。因为对一个总把小别扭放心里的人，这些看上去很平常的家庭敌对事件是会造成严重后果的。
So what about you?Let’s say you are 25, or you are 40 or you are 60. What might leaning into relationships even look like? Well, the possibilities are practically endless. It might be something as simple as replacing screen-time with people-time, or lightening up a stale relationship by doing something new together, long walks or date nights, or reaching out to that family member who you haven’t spoken to in years. Because those all too-common family feuds take a terrible toll on the people who hold the grudges.
我想用马克吐温的另一条名言来结束。一百多年前，当他回顾自己的一生时，他写下了，“生命如此短暂，我们没有时间争吵、道歉、伤心。我们只有时间去爱。”
所以说，好的生活是建立在好的关系上的。而这种理念是值得传播的。谢谢大家！
I’d like to close with another quote from Mark Twain. More than a century ago, he was looking back on his life, and he wrote this,”there isn’t a time, so brief his life, for bickerings, apologies, heart-burnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving. ” But in instant, so to speak, for that, the good life is built with good relationships. And that’s an idea worth spreading. Thank you!
【写在最后】：演讲者罗伯特.瓦尔丁格教授是哈佛大学医学院麻省总医院（MGH）精神科医师、精神分析治疗师。作为著名的成人发展研究所第四任所长，正在继续其前面三任自1940年以来一直进行的两项精神医学领域最负盛名的“人生全程心理健康研究”，一项是“哈佛精英研究”，另一项是“波士顿背街男孩研究”。在过去的75年里，从这两个项目产生了大量的学术论文、书籍，许多成果影响了精神医学、心理治疗的理论与实践。
在这个TED-X演讲里，罗伯特聚焦于所有人都关心的“什么是美好人生？”这个问题，用两个长达75年的纵向随访研究的成果，强调构成美好生活的最重要因素并非富有、成功，而是良好的心身健康及温暖、和谐、亲密的人际关系。
这两个研究项目的受试里，罗伯特提到，有一位后来成为美国总统的人。他出于医师、科学家的伦理操守而没有提其名，但有心人其实可以查到，1941年在哈佛读二年级的总统是哪一位。除了这位大人物，还有四位参议员、四位进过内阁的人。我2011年受罗伯特邀请，在其研究所做高级访问学者四周，研究了一位受试的卷宗，可惜只看到1967年的随访资料就得回国了。行前忍不住要罗伯特“剧透”一下，这位直到45岁还混得不怎么好的哈佛精英后来如何？他告诉我说，该人后来成为著名的剧作家！许多好莱坞电影与其有关。
罗伯特的前任乔治.范伦特可能是最高产的精神科医生之一。对这两个项目有兴趣的朋友可以看一本已经被翻译为中文的书——《怎样适应生活》。近期他出版了《Triumphs of Experience》。看完这个演讲觉得不过瘾的人就该去读这本书！