Dr. Robert Waldinger
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Um, yeah.
And, and one of the reasons why we get happier as we get older is
if we still have our health, is that the pressures ease.
If we have kids who are grown and launched, we're no longer taking care of aging parents, perhaps.
That we no longer have so much pressure in our jobs.
Maybe we're retired or we have more control over our work life because we're more senior in our jobs.
That those things then ease that pressure and we can take care of ourselves a lot more easily.
It's the former.
We can be born unhappy or really more technically, we all have certain inborn temperaments.
Yeah.
I mean, did you read Winnie the Pooh?
Yes.
Loved it.
There's Eeyore and there's Tigger.
Yes.
And some people are born Eeyores.
They're always kind of.
you know, down about things even when they're good.
And then there are tiggers who are just bouncy all the time, even when the worst is happening.
And we think that has to do with biological factors.