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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Grow old and get happy

| The Courier-Mail
SOME say your school days are your happiest. Others reckon life begins at 40. But it seems they're all wrong - according to scientists, we are most content when we hit 74.

Fewer responsibilities and financial worries, combined with more time to yourself, produces a contentment unknown earlier in life, they say.

The researchers found happiness starts to dip in the teenage years and continues on a downward spiral until the age of 40.

It levels off until about 46, then rises to a peak almost 30 years later.

German and American scientists analysed the results of a long-term British survey in which more than 21,000 men and women were regularly asked how happy they were.

The researchers said it was possible that people become more appreciative of what they have as they get older.


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