Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

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