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887. The Midlife Happiness Dip, and What to Do in Your 30s, 40s, and 50s
Brian discusses a number from happiness research, and what it implies about the timing of the hardest stretch of an entrepreneur's adult life. The finding is that wellbeing does not decline steadily with age. It falls, bottoms out in the middle, and then climbs for the rest of your life, which means the worst of it may be less random than it feels. Brian also discusses why the dip tends to arrive exactly when the business looks best on paper, Chip Conley's framing of the ego as an operating system that serves you brilliantly for four decades and then starts returning errors, and what to…
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