“People typically record high satisfaction levels in their early twenties. These then fall steadily towards middle age, before troughing at around 42. Most of us then grow steadily happier as we get older, …”
From an article on happiness. I should be getting happier every day now that I’m done troughing.
oops, “Unsurprisingly, the number one predictor of happiness is wealth.” Guess I really need to invest in lottery tickets.
“Oswald estimates that a thriving marriage, for instance, is equivalent to an uplift of about £50,000 on his happiness distribution. But that isn’t to say that money can never buy contentment. On the contrary, says Oswald, a £1m windfall is more than sufficient to lift someone at the bottom of his happiness curve towards the top.”
I don’t know if what I’ve been through means I have a double hurdle in the loss of happiness and the negative impact of no longer having a thriving marriage which will take down my “happiness distribution”.