🦄 Startups & VC 18h ago · Lachlan Brown

For decades, researchers found that happiness follows a U-shaped curve – high in youth, lowest in your 40s and 50s, then rising again. Most of us are in that middle dip right now.

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For decades, researchers found that happiness follows a U-shaped curve – high in youth, lowest in your 40s and 50s, then rising again. Most of us are in that middle dip right now.
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Here’s a pattern that kept showing up across decades of research, no matter who ran the numbers or where they looked: happiness follows a U-shaped curve. It starts high in youth, gradually sinks through your 30s and 40s, bottoms out somewhere around your late 40s or early 50s, and then — almost stubbornly — starts climbing again. Economists found it. Psychologists found it. It showed up in 145 countries. The consistency is honestly a little unsettling.
And here’s the part that got me

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