Social Connections & Community

Close relationships (with spouses, family, friends, community members) are the biggest factor keeping people happy throughout their lives, researchers discovered. People with strong relationships are happier, and physically and mentally healthier, than those who are less well-con...

Find a coworker that you have some common ground or shared interests with. It could even be a work-related interest.

Fitting in at the workplace is about your ability to build strong, meaningful relationships. And this could be hard to achieve in a large group.

Research found that people with a higher sense of well-being had more frequent and longer interactions.

• They had meaningful conversations two-and-a-half times more often than those with the least healthy social biomes.
• They had two-t...