What if there were a way to understand your happiness and psychological well-being from adulthood to old age? The U-bend can help with that. Learn more as Dr. Sara Szal, a Harvard-trained medical doctor, scientist, researcher, and bestselling author, explains the U-bend concept in an interview. Watch the full video on the Diary of a CEO’s YouTube channel. #DrSaraSzal #StevenBartlett #DiaryofaCEO

There's this really interesting study that is called the U-Bend, and it looks at psychological well-being for adults. It's highest in your 20s and the very start of your 30s. And then there's this U-shape where your psychological well-being goes down, and then it goes back up right around 50. So psychological well-being goes up again. And when I first heard about this U-Bend, I remember reading an article in The Economist about it. It was so validating because it made me feel like, oh, things are really hard. It makes sense to me that we see this through your 30s and 40s, and then it starts to have this uptick again. And I think there are ways to improve your psychological well-being so that you're not stuck in the U-Bend. But happiness, yes, I would say happiness, psychological well-being is high again in your 50s.