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In this warm, wise, and witty overview, Jonathan Rauch combines evidence and experience to show his fellow adults that the best is yet to come. Steven Pinker, bestselling author of Enlightenment Now

This book will change your life by showing you how life changes.

Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you're successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end?

Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch answers all these questions. He shows that from our 20s into our 40s, happiness follows a U-shaped trajectory, a happiness curve, declining from the optimism of youth into what's often a long, low slump in middle age, before starting to rise again in our 50s.

This isn't a midlife crisis, though. Rauch reveals that this slump is instead a natural stage of lifeand an essential one. By shifting priorities away from competitio

The Happiness Curve

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 7 May 2019
      ISBN-13 9781250080912
      978-1250080912
      ISBN-10 1250080916
      Also in:
      Assertiveness and motivation Age groups: adults Psychology of ageing

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In this warm, wise, and witty overview, Jonathan Rauch combines evidence and experience to show his fellow adults that the best is yet to come. Steven Pinker, bestselling author of Enlightenment Now

      This book will change your life by showing you how life changes.

      Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you're successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end?

      Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch answers all these questions. He shows that from our 20s into our 40s, happiness follows a U-shaped trajectory, a happiness curve, declining from the optimism of youth into what's often a long, low slump in middle age, before starting to rise again in our 50s.

      This isn't a midlife crisis, though. Rauch reveals that this slump is instead a natural stage of lifeand an essential one. By shifting priorities away from competitio

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