Are There Ways to Be Happy in Your Twenties?

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i want to know what i can do in my twenties, or thirties, or forties, or even sixties, so that i can be a lot happier when i'm in my seventies. And here's te weird thing, paula, i noticed when i was doing research that people have a tendency to get happier between about the ages oftino 55 and late sixties. The ones who go back down again are the strivers or the hard workers or the most ambitious people. They're the ones who see the biggest decline se they had the highest higes. It's none because they had more decline. It's just because they got higher, they worked harder,

#363: In our 20’s and 30’s, we have high levels of fluid intelligence, or raw intellectual horsepower. We can ace tests, impress people with our memory and recall, and analyze facts, documents and data.

But in our 40’s and 50’s, we have higher levels of crystallized intelligence, which allows us to draw together novel insights from across domains.

Fluid intelligence allows us to analyze, or break apart.

Crystallized intelligence allows us to synthesize, or put together.

Each type of intelligence invites us to express different skills, to pivot our role at work – or perhaps even to change careers or industries altogether.

In today’s episode, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks discusses these two types of intelligence, and outlines how we can gracefully move from one strength to the next.

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