Why Don't We Do What We Want?
"In the absence of strong convictions about what you want from life, you will always default to wanting more money." – Jack Raines
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When I ask you, “Why do you want more?” the common answers are “freedom” or “security.” Those are fine, but I want to challenge you to go deeper. The problem is that high-level, vague visions never motivate us as much as we’d hope.
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
Money makes us think we know exactly what we are talking about when we do not. It substitutes for self-knowledge, or at the very least delays our inquiry into what we really want. It is a medium to forestall. What money means is “I don’t know yet what I want, but when I do, here is something I can get it with.”
From “Full Pockets, Empty Lives” -Wach
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Money is a means to an end. It is only valuable (to us) once we have defined what matters to us. Accumulating more of it for its own sake will thus not make us happy. What makes us happy involves knowing what we want, and going after it, enabled by money or otherwise.
Our preoccupation with money feels highly respectable, but its true cause is poignant and unexpected: we keep wanting more money because we haven’t yet identified a passion that matters enough to us that it replaces money-making in our minds.
The School of Life • A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity
David Cain • What you want is never a thing
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Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan
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It’s senseless to have making money as your goal as money has no intrinsic value—its value comes from what it can buy, and it can’t buy everything. It’s smarter to start with what you really want, which are your real goals, and then work back to what you need to attain them. Money will be one of the things you need, but it’s not the only one and c
... See moreRay Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
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Paul Millerd • Leaving Money on The Table | #250
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