Posted on 01/16/2020 3:00:45 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
The dreaded midlife crisis may come about because it coincides with life’s peak time for misery, a study released this week says, according to a report.
That peak time would be around age 47, Dartmouth College professor and former Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower claims in a study, after examining trends in 132 countries to compare the relationship between well-being and age.
A typical individual’s well-being reaches its minimum point – on both sides of the Atlantic and for both males and females – in midlife, Blanchflower wrote in his report for the National Bureau of Economic Research.
In order to better understand age’s relationship to happiness, Branchflower undertook the study using prior surveys of self-reported well-being, the report said. In those reports, the results generally argue happiness across a lifetime is either relatively flat or slightly increasing with age.
To achieve a better understanding between happiness and aging, Blanchflower looked at data from 500,000 randomly sampled Americans and West Europeans.
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I reached my peak of miserablenes at around 19 and gotten better and better ever since. 47 is a cakewalk compared to 19.
Well said!
Men in their forties are often faced with:
Teenage kids.
Ageing parents who need help.
Hair falls out
Job problems
Dental problems (expensive)
Marital problems
Going bald is the least of these problems.
And women?
I most assuredly have not reached peak miserability yet, although I’m hoping to soon.
I think it was Howard Roarke who said, or maybe it was out of Altlas Shrugged hence Cagney or Reardon or Galt ... "I suffer, but the suffering only goes so deep."
Now, if you're a journalist ... such a study makes sense. Since they are lefty and therefore miserable in general, as a way of life, then one might see a life long arc. For example, people who are bipolar tend to see a leveling off in their 30's. So in the sense that liberalism is a lifelong disorder - and certainly one could view it as a projection and externalization of an internal psycho/biochemical/moral/character state , it doesn't surprise me if they experience an arc over their entire lifetimes which is measurable even when divorced from direct life circumstances.
If we were to assume that normals experience of happy/sad is spread evenly across their lives, then we could do a thought experiment and probably assume that lefy misery is greater than what the study measured since it was diluted by the experience of the normals, likely the actual lefty misery measures are in fact about 33% greater than reported, and the study would have reflected a relatively more depressed version of mankind.
Hmmmm the more I think about that, the more that makes sense.
Good thinking Tiny!
Why thank you, Mr. Owl!
Substitute menopause for going bald.
It depends on what their career choice was. I enjoy mine and not looking for being married with kids. Too many of my friends have done that and that’s why. My theme song is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ChoM2Rh60
Yeppers. I guess the average age for a liberal is 47.
I was miserable the years when Muschamp and Shark Humper were coaching at UF.
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Hmmm...
1. Your kids now have raging hormones at ages 11 - 14.
2. Wife decided she was done with “relations” because she delivered all the kids she was going to deliver.
3. Your back is shot and your golf score went to crap.
Oh...and...
4. The cute young things stopped looking at you ten years ago. How did you become invisible?
Me too. One guy even said, "Get married! Why should you be the only one who's not miserable?"
I turned 47 in 2008. There are no coincidences.
Someone - it may have been Abraham Lincoln - said that ‘Most people are about as happy as they decide to be.”
I really began to live in my 40s. The older you get, the more you understand what really matters. You know yourself better; know what you really want instead of what culture has told you that you OUGHT to want; you’ve dropped a lot of foolishness, and have the detachment and concentration to ‘go for it’.
You just have to stop accepting other peoples’ ideas about aging and what’s possible to you at any particular point in life. Middle-aged people today are a lot younger than they used to be, and it’s not just because of medical advancement. It’s because we’ve learned to think differently, too.
47 is just on the cusp of mid-life crisis for men and menopause for women...generally speaking. As far as misery goes, there is plenty available at just about any age but fasten your seat belts for 60’s on up health-wise. Bod is like a car with 200,000 miles on it...and counting!
How old is Prince Harry. This guy is such a nut he posted a clip on Instagram with music from a famous Anti Monarch group who wrote a song about offing his Granny
I was miserable when The Doobie Brothers broke up. But now that they are being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame all is cool.
Yep, I’m an old guy.
New Guidelines Redefine Birth Years for Millennials, Gen-X, and ‘Post-Millennials’
BY JAY SERAFINO MARCH 1, 2018
You hear about Millennials, Generation X, and the Baby Boomers all the time, but it’s not always clear who’s a part of these groups. In fact, all of these terms are fairly unofficial social constructs outside of the Boomers—the U.S. Census [PDF] actually defines them as the generation of people born between 1946 and 1964. Now, the Pew Research Center is looking to give more structure to these generational nicknames with a new set of guidelines that establishes where each person belongs depending on their birth year. This is what they’ve come up with:
The Silent Generation: Born 1928-1945 (73-90 years old)
Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964 (54-72 years old)
Generation X: Born 1965-1980 (38-53 years old)
Millennials: Born 1981-1996 (22-37 years old)
Post-Millennials: Born 1997-Present (0-21 years old)
My wife and I, our spouses, our siblings, and our first cousins and their spouses are what is now labeled the Silent Generation. We are in our 80’s + or minus a year or two.
Most of us are retired now. A couple of cousins still work a few days a week. No early deaths or suicides nor divorces nor jail birds. Many stayed within a 25-100 mile radius of where they grew up. Most of the guys volunteered for the military and served one hitch and came back to where they grew up and live there now and got married/raised their families. About 50% of us got real degrees and a few of us have masters. There are some real RNs, who worked in their late 60’s or early 70’s.
Our children are at the tail end of generation X and live similar lives as their parents. One sad suicide, due to drugs, a bad marriage and going into business with liberals is a losing game.
Again, there is a split with these kids, about 40% in good colleges enrolled in real degree programs. The others are basically well trained HiTech blue collar guys and gals like their parents.
Everyone texts and/or sends emails to each other. Half of my email list are my wife’s relatives or her lifetime/good friends. My wife is known as the texting Mom, Grannie, Aunt and long time friend.
We have lost most of our friends, who were the Greatest Generation in the last few years. The last few months have been really brutal re them leaving this orb. Some were mentors, later friends and some real WWII heros, like being the pilot on 25 B 17 missions out of the UK to dropping bombs over Germany.
Last but not least, most have churches that we have attended and supported with decades. Many of our friends have come from those churches.
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