![]() And the group that goes back down often includes the strivers, the people who have worked so hard, because the party ends.Īnd look. You know, what can we expect if we're trying to work so hard to build something with our lives? And I found that half the population tends to get happier and happier after 65 or 70, and the other half of the population more or less starts to go back down. This is mesearch (ph) more than research, really. Again, I'm a social scientist, but this is very personal. Lay out for us the big question you're exploring in the book.īROOKS: Well, I started doing research. KELLY: So in the three years since I have seen you, you clearly realized you had a lot more to say on this topic, this topic of aging and finding success in later life. It is titled "From Strength To Strength." Arthur Brooks, welcome back to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. He had written a piece for The Atlantic, a piece he has now turned into a book. KELLY: In other words, if this really prominent, really successful person wasn't happy with his life, what does it say for the rest of us trying to find purpose, relevance, even joy as we age? Well, Arthur Brooks had started noodling the question. And I thought to myself, what's he doing wrong? But then at the end of the flight, he stood up and I recognized him as somebody who's really quite prominent and who'd done a lot with his life. And I thought it was somebody who must have been really disappointed about his life. ![]() And he was saying he wished he were dead. Three years ago, back in 2019, I sat down with Arthur Brooks, the writer and social scientist, and he told me about an experience he had had on a plane where he'd found himself seated in the row ahead of an older gentleman.ĪRTHUR BROOKS: And he was talking to his wife, and I was - I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but I couldn't help but hear.
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