The happiness curve : why life turns around in middle age
Rauch, Jonathan, 1960-2018
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Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump even 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 well-documented U-shaped trajectory, a 'happiness curve', declining from the optimism of youth into what's often a long, low trough in middle age, before starting to rise again in our 50s. This isn't a midlife crisis, though. Rauch reveals that this downturn is instead a natural stage of life - and an essential one.
Main title:
The happiness curve : why life turns around in middle age / Jonathan Rauch.
Author:
Rauch, Jonathan, 1960-, author
Imprint:
London : Green Tree, 2018.
Collation:
viii, 244 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press.Illustration on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472960948 (hbk)
Dewey class:
155.66
Language:
English
BRN:
2700556