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人生を幸せにするのは何?━ロバート・ウォールディンガー(12分38秒)


QUESTIONS


Part 1 (Comprehension Questions ):

  1. In a recent survey of millennials asking them what their most important life goals were, how many percent said that a major life goal for them was to get rich?
  2. How many percent of those same young adults said that another major life goal was to become famous?
  3. What is the longest study of adult life that’s ever been done?
  4. How long have they tracked the lives of 724 men, year after year, asking about their work, their home lives, their health, and of course asking all along the way without knowing how their life stories were going to turn out?
  5. What are the lessons that come from the tens of thousands of pages of information that we’ve generated in these lives?
  6. What is the first lesson about relationships?
  7. How about the second big lesson?
  8. What is the third big lesson that we learned about relationships?
  9. Who were the happiest people in their 75-year study?
  10. Whose quote is this: “There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”?


Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

  1. How often do you arrange to meet friends?
  2. How often do all the members of your family get together?
  3. What differences has the internet made to people’s ability to keep relationships going over long distances?
  4. In what ways can people keep in touch with friends/family over the internet?
  5. Do you send/receive many emails to/from friends/family?
  6. The human being is said to be a “social animal”. One of the main criticisms made of the internet is that we’re getting used to relating to people we’ll never meet. What are the implications of that?
  7. Does it worry you that many children nowadays spend more time in front of computer games than actually playing with their friends?
  8. How many friends can the average person truly have?
  9. How many friends can you have on Facebook?
  10. How would you define a friend? Do you have different kinds of friends?