The second big idea is a little bit less, um, let's say encouraging in the first. It's called the striver's curse. The striver's curse is the fact that there are 2 groups of people, after about age 70 in the population. One group gets happier and happier as they age and the other group gets less and less happy. It's about 5050. If you look at the data. ◈ 22:52 Now, most people think that to be on the upper branch to get happier as you get older, you have to be one of the successful people. The people who do a lot with their lives, they see a lot of worldly success because then I guess you can dine out on your success and go out happy. Well, it's not true. The driver's curse is that the people on the lower branch, the people who tend to get unhappier as they age, they tend to be the ones who experienced… The Next Big Idea Daily · source
