A survey of over 300,000 Americans found that well-being doesn’t simply fade with age — it bends into a U, high in youth, sinking to a low around 50, then quietly climbing back up into old age, against what many expect

An ideas that a lot of people have is that well-being declines on a fairly straight line. Health fades, friends are lost, the body slows — and the mood is assumed to follow downward with all of it. However, a large survey of Americans found something stranger: plotted against age, life satisfaction does not slope [...] The post A survey of over 300,000 Americans found that well-being doesn’t simply fade with age — it bends into a U, high in youth, sinking to a low around 50, then quietly climbin