I used to think that way. And, really, no matter how much one has, the possibility of the whole world falling down and the recession we're having makes it harder to think that it's "enough"... in some ways. It's all a risk. The market can fall, medical things can happen.
On the flip side, one could find out that one has only six months to live, and how much money would it take to do that?
I dunno. I think "fat enough" is something of a mindset. We don't have the fast cars, big houses on the coast, helicopters, and can't give grants to fund museums, schools, or art institutes, yet... it's enough.
I help out artists with commissions as I'm able... and that's been enough. It makes me happy.
As to the last, I think a lot of people do find Purpose and Mastery and Autonomy to make the monetary stuff moot. I know that one friend of mine went into create a company he could sell, and came out of it with multi-hundreds of millions of dollars. He's more proud of the fact he was able to structure and create and build the company appropriately then the exact amount of money. And since then he's simply done as he liked, including the grants, but only a nice house on the coast, not something insane mansion, and one fast car, the others are quite slow but electric. *laughs*
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I used to think that way. And, really, no matter how much one has, the possibility of the whole world falling down and the recession we're having makes it harder to think that it's "enough"... in some ways. It's all a risk. The market can fall, medical things can happen.
On the flip side, one could find out that one has only six months to live, and how much money would it take to do that?
I dunno. I think "fat enough" is something of a mindset. We don't have the fast cars, big houses on the coast, helicopters, and can't give grants to fund museums, schools, or art institutes, yet... it's enough.
I help out artists with commissions as I'm able... and that's been enough. It makes me happy.
As to the last, I think a lot of people do find Purpose and Mastery and Autonomy to make the monetary stuff moot. I know that one friend of mine went into create a company he could sell, and came out of it with multi-hundreds of millions of dollars. He's more proud of the fact he was able to structure and create and build the company appropriately then the exact amount of money. And since then he's simply done as he liked, including the grants, but only a nice house on the coast, not something insane mansion, and one fast car, the others are quite slow but electric. *laughs*