There is a distinction between the reflective happiness of life satisfaction and the experiential measurement of happiness in the moment.

“there's different ways that you can measure happiness, right? There's sort of the the experiential measurement of it. It's like how happy are you right now in this moment? Give me a metric or give me a score out of 10, for instance. But then there's also the sort of reflective version of happiness”

The age of 36 is consistently reported in studies as the point of highest life happiness due to feelings of meaning, responsibility, and necessity.

“That is consistently the average age of highest happiness. And one of the hypothesises for why is that it's when you feel that you have the greatest meaning and purpose, you have the most responsibilities”