Wealth makes it even more difficult to figure out what to do with your life.
It's almost as if you can either have wealth/comfort or purpose/fulfillment, but it's vanishingly rare to have both at the same time.
I am rich and have no idea what to do
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#12It's okay. Keep learning, searching, asking questions, trying to find answers. Some questions are answered by starting a new company. Others are answered by going on a vacation to Hawaii and learning Physics in the jungle. Sometimes both. Sometimes neither. The idle mind is the devil's playground. So, stay busy, stay hungry, and keep searching.
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#13Wealth makes it even more difficult to figure out what to do with your life. It's almost as if you can either have wealth/comfort or purpose/fulfillment, but it's vanishingly rare to have both at the same time.
For the record, the implication here is, put pithily, you have to sell your soul to get rich.
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#14This now is your moment to improve the lives of other people in scalable cost-efficient ways, in improving the human condition. It may not be obvious how, but it will come to you if you try.
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#15You've won the competition, and you've found it meaningless. Maybe you could work on helping others do meaningful things with their lives, rather than being forced to grind and grind and grind their lives away.
I don't suggest mere philanthropy, but structural change. (The nature of which I will not attempt to dictate; after all, identifying the problem doesn't mean I know a solution.)
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#16Understanding than being rich was never the answer, community and sense of purpose is.
You can be a rich asshole.
And you can "just get by" but be the most loved grand-father the earth has borne.
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#17Opposite problem. I am tied to a corporate job, and I'd absolutely know how to use every second. No, really. Every second.
Seems like you two should help each other out!
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#18Wealth makes it even more difficult to figure out what to do with your life. It's almost as if you can either have wealth/comfort or purpose/fulfillment, but it's vanishingly rare to have both at the same time.
They are unrelated. You can have purpose and fulfillment regardless of your wealth. A life of pain and misery are not required.
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#20Idk read ”the monk who sold his ferrari” or something not that i have (read book, or ferrari)
Also youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI6qIqURA&t=15m14s but for millionaire equivalent instead of billionaire
e: advice comes in all shapes and forms. you want me to lie to him? what would buddha do