Deferred happiness is the idea that you can't be happy until you reach some goal or hit some milestone in your life.It's common to see people defer happiness until they make more money, find a romantic partner, finish school, move to a new city, or a million other scenarios.Today we talk about this idea often called Deferred Happiness Syndrome. We talk about why humans are prone to it, what type of people are MOST prone to it, and how to break the cycle of deferring happiness with some very p...
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Deferred happiness is the idea that you can't be happy until you reach some goal or hit some milestone in your life.It's common to see people defer happiness until they make more money, find a romantic partner, finish school, move to a new city, or a million other scenarios.Today we talk about this idea often called Deferred Happiness Syndrome. We talk about why humans are prone to it, what type of people are MOST prone to it, and how to break the cycle of deferring happiness with some very p...
Today on AMWTL, we discuss the book A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine. The book is written as a practical guide for anyone who wants to becoming a practicing Stoic and we use it as a lens through which we look at Stoicism and assess it's worthiness as a guiding philosophy of life ... because we're totally qualified to make that call. We also talk a little about the history of Stoicism, its origin in Greece and the decline of the philosophy a...
A Million Ways to Live
Deferred happiness is the idea that you can't be happy until you reach some goal or hit some milestone in your life.It's common to see people defer happiness until they make more money, find a romantic partner, finish school, move to a new city, or a million other scenarios.Today we talk about this idea often called Deferred Happiness Syndrome. We talk about why humans are prone to it, what type of people are MOST prone to it, and how to break the cycle of deferring happiness with some very p...
