Having a midlife crisis may sound like a cliche or the plot of a bad movie. But the reality is that there is a widespread theory that your happiness takes a dip in midlife before rebounding at age 50.
In fact, The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 is an entire book built around this premise. The book helped popularize a "U-shaped curve of well-being" that shows happiness peaking in your 20s, plummeting in your 40s, and then rising again after 50.
