Relevance of soft skills and gratitude


WHAT keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? It is with this opening question that psychiatrist Robert Waldinger started his TED talk in November 2015. In a recent survey of millennials that Wadlinger cited, over 80% of the respondents said that getting rich was their major life goal.

Another 50% of these same young adults said that another major life goal was to become famous.

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