B U I L D I N G W E A L T H · 81
You make money to solve your money and material problems.
I think the best way to stay away from
this constant love of
money is to not upgrade your lifestyle as you make money. It’s
very easy to keep upgrading your lifestyle as you make money.
But if you can hold your lifestyle fixed and hopefully make your
money in giant lump sums as opposed to a trickle at a time,
you won’t have time to upgrade your lifestyle. You may get so
far ahead you actually become financially free.
Another thing that helps: I value
freedom above everything
else. All kinds of freedom: freedom to do what I want, freedom
from things I don’t want to do, freedom from my own emotions
or things that may disturb my peace. For me,
freedom is my
number one value.
To the extent money buys freedom, it’s great. But to the extent
it
makes me less free, which it definitely does at some level as
well, I don’t like it. [74]
The winners of any game are the people who are so addicted
they continue playing even as
the marginal utility from
winning declines.
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