I love the framework presented by Naval Ravikant (if you don’t know him, get to know him, I suggest starting with his interview on The Knowledge Project by Shane Parrish), that money is “social credits.” I think we sometimes, as humans, get caught up in the multi-player-game-type (too many hyphens?) goal of get “x,” “x” being determined by what your friends, colleagues or family have. In speaking with some of the guys in the office yesterday we did this exercise of “what’s your number?” and “what would you do if you hit it?” Let’s skip the number for a moment, and focus on, what I think I would do. The answer is, nearly the same damn thing. OK, so we add a few cool cars and an upgraded house (to fit an expanding family), but that’s about it as far as “things” are concerned. Outside of that, it’s (1) spend more time with family (2) read more (3) exercise (and play tennis) more (4) travel more (5) continue working (because I love work), but
But if you loose everything – knowledge and reputation are tools that you can apply to stand back up. Anyone can fail and loose everything, but their mind (hopefully) isn’t going anywhere.
It’s probably more scary to loose wealth since usually there’s too much time put into building it and you can’t get it back quickly 🧐
But if you loose everything – knowledge and reputation are tools that you can apply to stand back up. Anyone can fail and loose everything, but their mind (hopefully) isn’t going anywhere.
It’s probably more scary to loose wealth since usually there’s too much time put into building it and you can’t get it back quickly 🧐