I think that you end up convincing yourself that you did the best, despite the obvious differences between what you were thinking back in the day and now. Also,

I think that you end up convincing yourself that you did the best, despite the obvious differences between what you were thinking back in the day and now. Also, you would make yourself think it was probably the only possible outcome and your younger self was wrong or at least very, very naïve. Or at least that's what I would do, sitting on a mountain of dollars.