Pursuing status will never bring true happiness
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#2This is a great read, thanks for sharing!
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#3My inner ring trap is retirement. I can’t wait to get there.
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#4My inner ring trap is retirement. I can’t wait to get there.
I wonder if the inner ring trap for retirement is "well, maybe I should wait until I have another $AMOUNT invested just to (be sure, be able to do more, etc.)."
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#5My inner ring trap is retirement. I can’t wait to get there.
Until you go golfing one time, and are like omg wtf how do people retire, because I’m bored?
I say that because that’s what many i know have realized once they (we) didn’t have to work.
I suspect the personality of engineering types likes puzzle solving, and is inclined to find some class of puzzles to “work” on.
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#6My inner ring trap is retirement. I can’t wait to get there.
Until you go golfing one time, and are like omg wtf how do people retire, because I’m bored? I say that because that’s what many i know have realized once they (we) didn’t have to work. I suspect the personality of engineering types likes puzzle solving, and is inclined to find some class of puzzles to “work” on.
Golf is such a good example of a game you can always improve at. There are a million things to tweak and you can play it practically your whole life.
Retiring also doesn’t mean you can’t program.
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#7https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103497725173760
> Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103627387813888
> Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
From @naval’s Twitter thread “how to get rich (without getting lucky)”
https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936
My note: wealth is options; options are freedom, and buying your time back. Only play status games if you’re playing for fun, but don’t confuse it with success and freedom.
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#8My inner ring trap is retirement. I can’t wait to get there.
That sounds like a really unfortunate way to go through life. Maybe you should reflect on possible alternatives?
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#9My inner ring trap is retirement. I can’t wait to get there.
Until you go golfing one time, and are like omg wtf how do people retire, because I’m bored? I say that because that’s what many i know have realized once they (we) didn’t have to work. I suspect the personality of engineering types likes puzzle solving, and is inclined to find some class of puzzles to “work” on.
I only work because I can't retire. I'd rather be bored silly than to work as I work to live, not the other way around.
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#10I think rejecting status wholesale is also a huge mistake.
Here’s the harsh reality. Many people judge and make decisions based on status. You can purport be above it and bootstrap and work as hard as you want but that one guy with status will get the raise he needed and now you don’t have. You can then try to lie to yourself that that is just superficial status. But it’s not. That guy can now use those resources to get ahead and you can’t.
Bootstrapping can become a toxic independence mentality that focuses on lying to yourself on how self sufficient you are — all while you are going nowhere fast.
Reality is harsh and doesn’t go by pat philosophies.
Also go ask a low status person in society how much status “doesn’t matter” and you’re gonna get some very real answers. Mostly I find people who already have high status are the ones that rant about how it doesn’t matter.