I have a friend of mine who had a coronary heart disease. He visited 10 cardiologists. The 9 first told him they had to operate, the tenth he said no. I believe it was the latter. A few months later, had a cardiac arrest and they had to operate with emergency open heart. That was over twenty years and still runs Figueres. I've done something similar because I write this post when we are closing in 2010 and statistics are all negative numbers red, mortgages, unpaid loans, government debt, bankrupt companies, ... Looking maranya between all this bad news to swallow I've found one positive in this and want to talk.
If we ask what people think about aging, mold will probably answer as did Maurice Chevalier: "old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative." The stiffness of the joints, muscle weakness, fading from view and memory loss, along with the growing disdain of the modern world into old age, it seems a terrible perspective not much better than death. However, humanity is wrong to be afraid of aging. Life is not a long, slow decline from the sunny uplands to the dark valley of death. It is rather a siphon.
When people starts adult life is, on average, very happy. Things went downhill from youth to middle age, reaching its lowest point in what is known as the midlife crisis. So far, all more or less known. Part surprising coming from here, because although the way things are lost to old age as vitality, mental acuity and visual, it is true that we spend what we earn in the pursuit of life: happiness .
This curious discovery has emerged a new branch of economics that is a measure of human welfare more satisfying than money. The conventional economics use the money as a measure of utility, but never refers to welfare. However, some economists believe the direct relationship between money and welfare, have decided to go to the heart of the matter and measure happiness itself.
These ideas have penetrated the field of politics, from Bhutan, where the concept of Gross National Happiness is part of the planning process (someone with bad baba said that is because the money has its absolutist king .) All new policies must have a avalució FIB, similar to the environmental impact we use here. In 2008, President Sarkozy asked two Nobel economists, Amartya Headquarters and Joseph Stiglitz, a broader measure of welfare than GDP. In the same vein, last month, David Cameron announced that the British government started collecting data on welfare.
There are a lot of data on this subject collected by the General Social Survey , Eurobarometer and Gallup. The question is to find the answer to the question: what makes people happy?
There are four main factors that influence happiness gender, personality, external circumstances and age.
I will focus on age. If you ask a group of people 30 years and a group of 70 years (as has been done in the U.S.) who you think is happier, both groups agree that the group is 30 years. But when evaluating their own welfare, are the group of 70 happier. This curve called "soda" (U-shaped) is repeated in all countries, with variations. So on top of the table would Ukrainians who achieved the lowest welfare at age 62. At the other extreme are the Swiss to reach the same point in 35 years, but in most countries this is between 40 and 50. The world average is 46 years.
Therefore, this year and placed at the premiere in 2011 and I am 46, from that moment my happiness / welfare only to grow. We must be optimistic. Happy 2011 everyone.
Sources: The Economist , Jean Paul Fitoussi
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