This One Study Will Change How You Think About Your Entire Life: The Cornell Legacy Project

Hey. It's your friend, Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. If you could go back in time and spend just a few minutes with your younger self, let's say your 15 year old, your 20, your 30 year old self, I bet you would know exactly what you'd say because you have important advice to give. You have some valuable lessons that you would share. You would say, look, here's exactly what you should do right now. But hear me out. Hear me out. Wouldn't it be amazing if every once in a while, you could time travel forward to the future and get advice from the older, wiser version of you. Wouldn't you love to find out what changes you could make in your life right now while you still have the chance? Psst. I got a little secret for you. You can. Because today, you and I are hopping in a time machine and going to the future to hear the life lessons that every single 90 year old wishes they knew when they were your age. That's what we're doing. See, I have this amazing guest here in our Boston studios, and he is the perfect person to share these life lessons with you. If you've ever wondered, what is the secret to living a happy life? What are the biggest regrets that people have at the end of their life? And at the end, what really matters and what doesn't? Well, you're about to find out. And once you hear these life lessons from 80, 90, and 100 year olds, you will never be the same again. Hey. It's your friend, Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. I am so excited that you're here. It's always an honor to be together and to get to spend time with you. If you're a new listener or you're here because somebody shared this episode with you, I just wanna take a moment and personally welcome you to the Mel Robbins podcast family. And I can't wait for you to meet today's guest, doctor Carl Pillemer, and learn the life lessons from people in their eighties, nineties, and even in their one hundreds. These are life lessons you didn't know you needed to hear. Professor Pillemer is one of the world's leading researchers on aging and family relationships. He's the Hazel e Reed professor of human development at Cornell University and professor of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. He's also the founder of the Cornell Legacy Project. It's a massive decade long study capturing those hard won life lessons that you're about to learn today. His best selling books, 30 lessons for living and 30 lessons for loving, are blueprints for how to live a life with more meaning, fewer regrets, stronger relationships, and the happiness you deserve. He's also the author of Fault Lines, Fractured Families and How to Mend Them. Professor Pillemer has published over a 150 peer reviewed studies. His …