Don\u2019t fret about having a midlife crisis \u2013 you probably deserve cheering up by then<\/p>\n
The meaning of life?\u00a0Famously 42, according to a supercomputer asked \u201cthe ultimate question of life, the universe and everything\u201d in Douglas Adams\u2019s The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>. But what\u2019s the shape of life? A \u201cU\u201d. It appears our self-reported happiness or wellbeing is highest as children and older adults, with a massive slump in middle age. That slump goes on getting worse from age 30 until our late 50s, so calling it a midlife crisis is way too optimistic.<\/p>\n I shared Britain\u2019s U-shaped happiness curve<\/a> on social media last week, prompting a lot of responses \u2013 not just from traumatised 35-year-olds realising they\u2019ve got two decades of this ahead. Many suggestions for what might be driving the U-shaped pattern were country specific \u2013 pointing out that older adults are the lucky ones with houses and defined benefit pensions.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don\u2019t fret about having a midlife crisis \u2013 you probably deserve cheering up by then The meaning of life?\u00a0Famously 42, according to a supercomputer asked \u201cthe ultimate question of life, the universe and everything\u201d in Douglas Adams\u2019s The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy. But what\u2019s the shape of life? A \u201cU\u201d. It appears our self-reported … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}