The formula for being happy, if you want to know, is boring: Nurture your relationships, actively reach out to friends, pursue common interests together, take care of your body, don’t worry too much about what people think.

This wisdom comes from American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr Robert Waldinger. And he should know. Dr Waldinger directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest running studies of adult life. It tries to understand how childhood experiences shape health and well-being in middle age.
The study began with tracking the health of 268 Harvard male sophomores (women were not admitted into college at the time) in 1938, and over 84 years, has expanded to include spouses of the original participants and 1,300 of the original participants’ offspring. According to the Harvard Gazette, former US president John F Kennedy was one of the original participants. Dr Waldinger is in Mumbai to collaborate with the Rustomjee group to achieve what they claim is a difference in housing design and build happier communities.