Arthur C. Brooks

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What this suggests is that these are marginal effects that people actually will experience.

But once again, there's no free lunch, is what it comes down to.

So what you find is that neuroticism.

Oh yeah, he's awesome.

Yeah, yeah.

So neuroticism dramatically declines.

So there's five aspects of personality.

There's openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

And they all change as you get older, mostly for the better.

It's one of the reasons that people tend to have better- What goes up, what goes down.

So openness to experience goes up and then goes down.

And so in your mid-50s, you're almost at the age where you're going to see it.

So that's where you get real racist in your 50s?

Where you're less likely to want to ride a scooter, right?

That's right.

Yeah.

And that'll stay kind of where it is.

Some people are just naturally open to experience, but almost everybody has a decline in their openness to experience.

Yeah.

So you have more neophobia and less neophilia.

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