Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person - The New York Times

Do contented people live longer or do people become contented as they have more life experience?

"Gerontologists call this the paradox of old age: that as people’s minds and bodies decline, instead of feeling worse about their lives, they feel better. In memory tests, they recall positive images better than negative; under functional magnetic resonance imaging, their brains respond more mildly to stressful images than the brains of younger people."

Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person - The New York Times