by Daniel Busman | Jun 13, 2025 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? Happiness tends to follow a U-shaped curve through life. This was the outcome of a global study by David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald, who investigated how happiness and life satisfaction evolve with age. People in their younger years...
by Daniel Busman | Jun 6, 2025 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? For generations, life has followed a familiar script: education, career, then retirement. But advances in health and longevity are bringing a new way of thinking. Longer, healthier lives mean the “third act” is no longer a gentle wind-down — it...
by Daniel Busman | May 30, 2025 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? In 1917, King George V began sending congratulatory telegrams to all UK citizens reaching their 100th birthday. That year, only 24 greetings were sent, and the estimated population of centenarians in the UK was less than 50. Fast forward to...
by Daniel Busman | May 23, 2025 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? Sometimes you have to pay a premium for the life you want. It might mean changing to a lower-paying job that allows you to spend more time with your family, accepting higher taxes to live in a place you love, or taking a mid-career sabbatical to...
by Daniel Busman | May 16, 2025 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? Time, money, and health are three core ingredients that shape the quality of our lives. We rarely have all three at once. At different stages of life, there’s an imbalance, as the flow of these key resources shifts over our lifetime. When we’re...
