Chuck Bryan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
At 55, you're probably going to get roughly the same score.
So it is a very reliable test.
Interestingly, what they found is that over the course of life,
optimism tends to rise and pessimism tends to fall from young adulthood to middle age.
And then it starts to decline, which I can tell you firsthand that is totally true.
Oh, I don't want to self-reflect too much on this one.
Well, something that I'm really hanging on to is I've been told that like your 40s are far and away your worst decade.
Yeah, I've heard that.
Almost across the board.
You've got way more responsibility.
Like you're not as young anymore.
Your body's starting to change.
Like it's just a bad decade.
50s, it starts to pick up.
But I remember we talked about this before.
In your 60s, your happiness starts to go back up to levels that it was when you were younger.
So I'm really holding out for my 60s, man.