Happiness is ...

I just found out there is such a thing as a "Midlife Happiness Crisis". According to studies, apparently the human "happiness cycle" is in the form of a "U" shape. Happiness is highest during childhood. It will then gradually fall and bottoms out when one is around 45 years old. After that, happiness will increase again through to old age.

Read: The Midlife Happiness Crisis

Hmm, no wonder we all reminisce about our happy childhood/school memories. It also explains why Kaka is so popular in the office! Anyway, here's something useful which may help flatten out that "U" shape:

Read: Whitepaper: Global Equity Strategy, If it makes you Happy

Through the whole of his life he pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity that is at all times in his power, and which, if in the extremity of old age he should at last attain to it, he will find to be in no respect preferable to that humble security and contentment which he had abandoned for it. It is then, in the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and disease, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments which he imagines he has met with from the injustice of his enemies, or from the perfidy and ingratitude of his friends, that he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind, than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys. - Adam Smith