Season 3, episode 10: a better age (part II)
“I guess as long as I could keep moving, putting one foot in front of the other, I never felt old.”
— Marie Farr, age 99
Has our youth-obsessed culture blinded us to better days ahead? Research shows that happiness bottoms out in our 40’s—but as we get older, we actually get happier through the decades. This week in a special 2-part episode, we’re testing out the happiness curve in real life, with people who are contending with aging in the decades ahead of us: the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.
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Show notes:
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Jonathan Rauch’s book The Happiness Curve and brief excerpt about adolescence
Abstract of Dr. David Blanchflower’s study confirming the happiness curve across the globe
Dr. Margit Cox Henderson’s article, “the paradox of aging”
Your Brain is Not For Thinking, NYT story by neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett
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