Arthur Brooks

And the answer is the sooner you think about these issues, the more likely you're going to have the whole cadence of your life in order.

So you can be happy, young, happy, middle, happy end.

And it requires all the same sets of decisions, all the same sets of investments.

So if you look like somebody like Charles Darwin, I mean, look, if you've got the greatest natural scientist in history, he's won two or three for you.

That's just the way it is.

And yet in the last 20 years of his career, he was trying to stay on his fluid intelligence curve of inventing new stuff.

And he couldn't anymore.

Part of it was that

the science had gotten too sophisticated for him to understand in his own field.

And so for the last 20 years of his career, he wasn't able to make any new innovations and he was very depressed.

You know, he wrote 11 books in the end of his life, but he thought that they were all just kind of repetitive and derivative and boring.

And he wrote to his best friend, nothing gives him joy.

And a lot of people wind up that way.

You know, they have these great careers and they're noted.

I mean, he's buried at Westminster Abbey as a hero, but he died thinking he was a disappointment.

Now, it doesn't have to be this way.

Oh, yeah, totally.

And it happens again and again and again.

You find Nobel Prize winners in this category.

I've got tons of them in my book that I talk about.