Your definition of happiness changes with age
What makes you happy at one stage of your life probably won’t make you happy the older you become.
Social psychologists Jennifer Aaker, Cassie Mogilner and Sep Kamvar analysed 12 million blog posts (the digital diaries of our time, as they call it) to see how people described their happiness and what makes them happy. They found that the definition of happiness changes over the course of our lives, around every five to 10 years. In fact, the psychologists identified five stages of happiness: discover, pursuit, balance, meaning and savouring. Watch the video above to see Aaker explain it herself, and tell us, do you agree with her theory?
Video source: Future of StoryTelling
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