22August

The Good Life And How to Live It, by Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz | The Vanguard Book Club

Date 2026-08-22-2026-08-22

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What role do our relationships play in the overall quality of our lives? Let’s have a real and raw conversation about it! Join us in August to discuss The Good Life: And How to Live It, Lessons from the World’s Longest Study on Happiness, by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz.

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📖When? Saturday August 22nd – 3-5pm AEST (12-2pm ICT)

📖Where? Online or in person at The Loop, 49 Thao Dien, Ho Chi Minh City

📖How much? It’s free!

*As always, you don’t have to read the book to participate!*

Publisher description:

What makes for a fulfilling and meaningful life? A good life?

‘In a crowded field of life advice, and even life advice based on scientific research, Shulz and Waldinger stand apart.’ -Angela Duckworth, author of Grit.

Based on findings from the 80-year-long Harvard Study of Adult Development, this landmark book reveals the simple yet surprising truth: the stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying, and overall healthy lives.

Revealing the ground-breaking research behind the world’s longest study on happiness, programme directors Dr Robert Waldinger and Dr Marc Schulz bring together scientific precision, traditional wisdom, incredible real-life stories, and actionable insights to prove once and for all that our own wellbeing and ability to flourish is absolutely within our control.

‘Waldinger and Schulz are world experts on the counterintuitive things that make life meaningful.’ – Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology, Yale University
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This meeting will be facilitated by a full-time Life Coach (me!) and former university educator with over a decade of international experience in facilitating groups from various cultural backgrounds and beliefs. We insist on respectful and inclusive interactions! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊🏽 We’re also not into ‘positive vibes only’–we want real and raw discussion, so we welcome ALL the vibes. It’s more fun that way 😁.

Wanna suss me out ahead of time to see if we’ll ‘gel’? Then feel free to have a snoop here ☺:

At this meetup, we will discuss the authors’ insights on living ‘the good life’ and how they may relate to our own lives. Do you agree with their perspectives? Do you disagree? Either way, we WANT your insights 😁

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Any questions? Please don’t hesitate to ask!

With gratitude,

Leslie Crudup Villagarcia
-Your No-Nonsense Life Coach-

Learn more about our book club by watching the video at bit.ly/LeslieVBookClub

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