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Podcast: The Strong Life Project Podcast
Episode: EP 3590 The deferred life hypothesis
Description: In EP 3590 of The Strong Life Project, Shaun O'Gorman pulls apart the deferred life hypothesis: the quiet belief that real living starts later. Later when the kids are older, when the business is stable, when you're leaner, calmer, richer, or finally "sorted". It sounds responsible. It is often disguised avoidance. This episode names the cost of that pattern. When you keep postponing joy, connection, health, and meaning, you don't stay neutral. You drift. The goalposts move, the workload expands, and your nervous system learns that relief only arrives after the next milestone. For many people, that milestone...