An amazing story in The Atlantic about the Harvard Study of Adult Development (aka the Grant Study). In 1937, researchers identified 268 of the healthiest and most well-adjusted sophomore men at Harvard University (including the future President Kennedy), and they've followed their lives over the last 72 years.
The results breathtakingly illustrate just how complex our lives are. Highly recommend you take the time to read it. It's a pretty unique vantage point onto the human condition.
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How did they ever identify JFK as a healthy person? He was always sickly and suffering from childhood onwards, and didn't even look healthy until he began cortisone injections some years later...ah well...perhaps he qualified under "well-adjusted"
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