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...
Deferring happiness until retirement ...It is commonplace today for people to work their entire lives in jobs they hate, saving for a someday-retirement that may never come. People have come to accepted this way of deferring life — or deferring happiness — to be normal and even mandatory.Entrepreneurship, FIRE (Financial independence Retire Early), minimalism, and many other movements that go against the traditional path have grown more popular as people seem to realize that the default...
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...
