Arthur Brooks

It's worth giving some thought if maybe, maybe, maybe you're a spiral like me, by the way.

Yeah, and again, I'm gonna be talking about people who are either happy or unhappy at the end of their life.

One thing that's really worth pointing out is I've studied a lot of biography to see this question.

You know, everybody, if you look at these high performers throughout history, you know, these superstars, you know, the most famous people in history,

You always in their biographies learn about the amazing things they do, but nobody ever asks, were they happy when they died?

And again, we got to have goals.

I mean, it's like he who dies with the most toys wins.

That's idiotic.

It's he who dies surrounded by the people who love her wins.

He who she or he who dies with great happiness and a sense of fulfillment wins.

I mean, forget the toys, forget the money.

None of us is so stupid to think that.

And yet the world is kind of telling you that.

So let's not be fooled.

When you look at a lot of really successful people, a lot of them died very unhappy, as it turns out.

And part of the reason is because of what I call the strivers curse.

You find that about half of the population after age 70 gets happier and happier all the way to the end, and the other half gets unhappier all the way to the end.

And it's 50-50, basically.

Now, you'd think that the people on the upper branch are the people who were the most successful.

It turns out the people who are most successful in worldly terms, they tend to be on the lower branch.