So I think of it in those terms,
not necessarily the person's role,
defined role in our life,
like romantic partner or boss.
But it’s the “Does this person
have my back?”
And so that's, I think,
the defining element
that we want to find
somewhere in our world.
WPR: So we have so many
member questions coming in, Bob,
and I'm going to kind of go through
a few more of them.
So TED Member Nancy wants to know
if you think it’s possible
for an endemically unhappy person
at some point in life to obtain happiness.
RW: Yes. And thank you
for asking that question.
So we have a couple
of life stories in our book,
the book contains real stories
of real people.
The names are disguised
to protect confidentiality.
But some of those stories are of people
who have big turnarounds late in life,
people who were isolated and less happy
and in their 60s found a whole community.
One man found a community at a gym
that he never dreamed he would find.
And so the message that we get
from studying these thousands of lives is:
it is never too late.