Metadata
- Author: Archive
- Full Title:: To Be Happy, Marriage Matters More Than Career
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Happiness,
- URL:: https://substack.com/redirect/dc4fb59f-d1de-44d1-a08f-e308726cefb7?j=eyJ1IjoiNDRpMmEifQ.txKr3BEB06jM7pp-5wphmyXof7jFdPvpfRX5kIjhK8g
- Finished date:: 2023-09-15
Highlights
The common operating assumption seems to be that professional life is at the core of life and that marriage would be something nice to add on top sometime down the road (View Highlight)
Please respect the truism that if you have a great career and a crappy marriage you will be unhappy, but if you have a great marriage and a crappy career you will be happy (View Highlight)
Last month, for example, the University of Chicago economist Sam Peltzman published a study in which he found that marriage was “the most important differentiator” between happy and unhappy people. Married people are 30 points happier than the unmarried. Income contributes to happiness, too, but not as much (View Highlight)