10 Nov The Heart Grows Smarter – David Brooks
One of my favorite opinion writers is David Brooks from the New York Times, offering thoughtful and psychologically well
informed responses to life. Recently he wrote The Heart Grows Smarter an exploration of the Grant Study which was a
longitudinal research tracking 268 Harvard students from 1938 throughout their lives.
The results inform us of two things: how important warm, loving (good) attachment is early on and how people can grow and change and
develop secure (good) attachment as they age. We can change. We can grow and develop and become who we have always wanted to.
A key ingredient might be what Joanna Macy explores about intention as a way to direct us through fear.
To see George Vaillant (the director of the research talking about The Grant Study click here: George Vaillant The Grant Study Video