How to Live a Long Happy Life — 8 Insights Backed by Research | TIME
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- One of the reasons young people do such risky things is because they think happiness declines with age so they live it up.Â
- They’re only half right: you are happiest at ages 26 and 83.Â
- There’s a lot of evidence that we’re happier when we’re older.Â
- What’s interesting is the meaning of happiness does change as we age: young people associate happiness with excitement. Older people connect happiness with peacefulness.Â
- Life does seem to speed up as you get older.Â
- The bands and songs people remember most fondly in middle age are the ones they came to love between the ages of 16 and 21.
- Youthful success may mean you won’t live as long.Â
- Happy people live longer.Â
- How you feel right now is a half decent way to determine whether you’ll die in the next 30 years.
1:37 PM Dec 10 2014