Certainly touches a nerve. I generally love my career and consider it more a hobby than a job, so I "work" very hard and I don't mind doing that. However in my

Certainly touches a nerve. I generally love my career and consider it more a hobby than a job, so I "work" very hard and I don't mind doing that. However in my life the most money I've made and what most people would consider to be successful, is when I worked the least. Which is appalling and baffles me since it hurts the values I was raised with and struggle to keep believing in. I could convince myself that at those times I was reaping the benefits of my previous hard work but honestly I know that I had the luck to work in a team where people worked steadily in moderation or little, and had the opportunity to make some good decisions in a favorable environment. We should stop listening to all these egotistical stories of success and humblebragging tainted by survivor bias. Most of the time they provide useless or wrong advice and make more harm than good. I think we should focus more on presenting fair points of view, learning and teaching others about healthy work habits and financial decisions, and in the process have a bit of more empathy to everyone successful or not.