Arthur C. Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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You're going to do that thing.
Your word truly is your bond.
Yeah.
And it's more so as you get older.
And the best one of all is the neuroticism because it falls.
You'll find people with borderline personality disorder that doesn't completely resolve, but they're completely they're nonfunctional at 35 and they're very functional at 55 that you'll see.
People, generally speaking, neuroticism is a Freudian concept that largely refers to depression and anxiety.
So the mood disorders of depression and anxiety, bipolar perhaps.
But mostly it's, you know, these common things that a lot of people suffer from.
You're almost certainly going to be less anxious and almost certainly going to be less depressed.
It doesn't mean you're not going to be not depressed.
It just means less.
don't things just don't really upset me anymore yeah it's so good getting older it's so good getting i mean it's just like life is fundamentally better now what you find interestingly is that general happiness declines through your 30s and 40s
And it tends to bottom out in your early 50s.
And then most people who don't have badly untreated mood disorders or substance abuse problems, they increase a ton in their 50s and 60s.
It's to as high as it was when you were a kid, is when you're a kid.
Then the population breaks up into two groups.
Half and half.
Half keep getting happier until almost the very end.
And the other half, after about 70, start back down again.
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