The Adult's Guide to Happiness¶

Working harder to earn more money only maintains your current level of satisfaction. Cultivating trust, emotional bonds, and other forms of social support is what actually grows your happiness account.

Drawing on research across multiple academic disciplines, the author identifies the happiness U-curve: people's sense of wellbeing hits its lowest point in their forties and fifties, then gradually rises again. As we come to know ourselves better and expectations slowly adjust downward, happiness increases rather than falls.

psychology¶