Happiest Age, Compassion Fatigue, Arthritis Treatment
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about how happiness fluctuates with age, a study that suggests compassion fatigue might be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and a possible new revolution in arthritis treatment.
Happiest Age
- “At which age are we at our happiest.” Ruhr Universitat. 2023.
- “The development of subjective well-being across the life span: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies.” by Susanne Buecker, et al. 2023.
Compassion Fatigue
- “Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believe Compassion is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion.” by Izzy Gainsburg. 2023.
- “Moving from compassion fatigue to compassion resilience Part 4: Signs and consequences of compassion fatigue.” by Debbie L. Stoewen. 2020.
- “Compassion Fatigue.” by Chuck Russo, et al. 2020.
Arthritis Treatment
- “Developing a Treatment for Arthritis from Stem Cell Signals.” by Josh Conway. 2023.
- “Osteoarthritis.” NIH. 2023
- “The Current State of Osteoarthritis Treatment Options Using Stem Cells for Regenerative Therapy: A Review.” by Michael Thoene. 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:09.0 | Time flies when you learn in super cool stuff. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Nate. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time |
| 0:14.2 | welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. |
| 0:18.1 | If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how happiness |
| 0:22.1 | fluctuates with age, a study that suggests compassion fatigue might be a self-fulfilling prophecy and a possible new revolution in arthritis treatment. |
| 0:32.0 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:35.0 | A massive review of studies on happiness has attempted to answer once and for all |
| 0:41.0 | at what age are humans the happiest. |
| 0:44.4 | Okay so this is the age old question. |
| 0:47.3 | So do I have a bounty of joy to look forward to or |
| 0:50.9 | all of my happy days a thing of the past? |
| 0:54.0 | Well, it's complicated. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, I was kind of afraid you were going to say that? |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, this question has actually been studied for decades, |
| 1:01.0 | but no single study has been able to really nail down |
| 1:04.5 | what age represents the happiest for most of us. So an international team of researchers decided that |
| 1:10.4 | instead of conducting their own study, they'd look at a bunch of studies that have |
| 1:14.1 | already been done to see what trends they could pinpoint. |
| 1:17.3 | Got it, so they basically compared the results of lots of studies to see what |
| 1:21.2 | they had in common? Exactly. |
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