The Happiness Curve : : why Life Gets Better After 50

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Self-Help / Aging / Rauch, Jonathan
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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The voyage of life: Thomas Cole's journey--and mine -- What makes us happy (and doesn't): the strange illogic of life satisfaction -- A timely discovery: how unsuspecting economists (and apes) found the happiness curve -- The shape of the river: time, happiness, and the curve of the U -- The expectations trap: midlife malaise is often about nothing -- The paradox of aging: why getting old makes you happier -- Crossing toward wisdom: the happiness curve has a purpose, and it's social -- Helping ourselves: how to get through the U -- Helping each other: bringing midlife out of the closet -- Epilogue: Gratitude.
Draws on cutting-edge scientific studies to discuss the U-shaped trajectory of happiness, which declines from the optimism of youth before surging upward again after age fifty, and offers ways to endure the slump during midlife.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Disappointing submitted by ekjensen on August 20, 2018, 9:41pm I really tried to get through this book in 4 weeks and only made it half way. It was tedious, repetitious and the data and anecdotes were boring. Sorry.