“As Rauch states in The Happiness Curve: “**Young people consistently overestimate their future life satisfaction**. They make a whopping forecasting error, as nonrandom as it could be—as if you lived in [[Seattle]] and expected sunshine every day… Young adults in their twenties overestimate their future life satisfaction by about 10 percent on average. Over time, however, excessive optimism diminishes… **People are not becoming depressed. They are becoming, well, realistic**.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[forecasting]], [[depression]], [[happiness]], **Source** -- [[20250201125729 - B - Just Keep Buying]]