You Want What You Actually Do | #296
In my first job out of college, I got drinks with a Vice President once and he told me how much he made. $350k. At the time, hearing this information was like crack. I thought I made it. All I had to do was stick it out, and I'd get there later that decade. Of course, I was ignorant of what else was out there. So naturally as I started to research ... See more
dux.comPersonally, I have gone in the other direction instead by compiling a “reverse bucket list” to make the ideas in this chapter practical and workable in my life. Each year on my birthday, I list my worldly wants and attachments—the stuff that fits under Thomas’s categories of money, power, pleasure, and honor. I try to be completely honest. I don’t
... See moreArthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
In a nutshell, if your life goals revolve around lots of money, prestige, and other worldly things, you are setting yourself up to have exploding wants and low life satisfaction. You kind of knew this, didn’t