I learned a lot about why Maslow's hierarchy is a pyramid. I had unending amounts of discretionary time, so I could spend hours and hours focusing on self-actua

I learned a lot about why Maslow's hierarchy is a pyramid. I had unending amounts of discretionary time, so I could spend hours and hours focusing on self-actualization. The problem was that, without work, I had no real spur to focus on competency goals (referred to as status in the pyramid). So I ended up with incredibly deep self knowledge, but knowledge of a depressing kind, knowledge of how I wasn't achieving my intellectual potential and how I wasn't repaying my luck to the world and so on. It was navel gazing, essentially, the equivalent of filling out an extended Myers Briggs test without actually doing anything with the knowledge.