In the first statement you made, you can replace money with any other essential need that human beings have. My perspective has always been this; after you hav

In the first statement you made, you can replace money with any other essential need that human beings have. My perspective has always been this; after you have achieved your needs for the money you need to stay alive, what do you do next? As I was saying before we should first find what we like and then look at the money required to carry it out. If we were to take the other approach where we first look for the money and then find something to do in our life that makes us happy with the money, we would invariably hurt ourselves in the process. As somebody mentioned before in the comments, the pursuit of money distracts from the task at hand. This leads to an unhappy process and a poorly completed task. But again it takes focus to carry this out. Focus not only on what you do but also on what makes you happy. Happiness is but a collection of moments strung together which when reflected upon gives us the relative feeling of joy.