There is a theory most people dismiss because it sounds like sour grapes, but is mostly true.
Most rich people are rich in part because they wanted to get (or stay) rich more badly than others. This is a boring life goal. As a result, most rich people are boring.
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any insight for those who made becoming rich a goal in service of a broader goal they needed the freedom or financial certitude to explore?
(I don't want to be boring)
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It is a very high-risk staging strategy. Can work but is more likely to make you boring than rich and losing sight of the original idea.
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Anecdote: the richest people at my library were the most reluctant to pay the smallest of library fines. Once the fine was 15p and the guy pulled out a clip of 20s as fat as my fist to pay it, after much fuss. "That's how rich people stay rich" my friend said.
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How else can they finance non-boring pastimes?
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Overlooked line from Citizen Kane:
“Well, there’s no trick to making a lot of money, if all you want ... is to make a lot of money.”
youtu.be/87indycxudo
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It's really hard to switch between business brain (everything I say matters) and pleasure brain (nothing I say matters).
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