There was a big smile on the front of your book.

Part of the reason why you put that, what looks like a smiley face on it is because

of this arc of happiness that you describe.

That was quite surprising to me.

What do you mean by an arc of happiness?

Well across, across almost every culture, the correlation between age and happiness is

a smile.

So, zero to kind of 25 is beer, star wars, you know, making out from college football or

you know, primarily football.

Zero to 25 is usually pretty happy.

25 to 45 is what I call the shickets real years.

You realize that distinct to what your parents are, you need to told you you're not going

to have a fragrance named after you or be a member of parliament.

You have kids, you have economic stress.

When you love a great deal, get sick and dies, your parents, right?

Life gets very hard, very fast, 25 to 45.

And generally speaking, these are the least happy years.

And then something wonderful happens usually in your late 40s or early 50s and that is you

start recognizing the finite nature of life.

Maybe you have some economic security, maybe you've established relationships, maybe you

have these really wonderful things that are less awful that looks melancholy like you

called kids, you realize that life is short.

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