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Dude, do you realize there are areas on earth where inhouse toilet and running potable water are luxuries? Besides,studies have shown that a) Financial income
by fsloth 11y ago
Dude, do you realize there are areas on earth where inhouse toilet and running potable water are luxuries?
Besides,studies have shown that
a) Financial income above a specific fairly low and professionally attainable threshold does not bring any more happiness (70k a year or so)
b) most happiness peoples experience per achievements are due to achieved intrinsic goals (art, science, learning to play the piano, whatever, becoming ceo if that is what gets ones socks rolling)
If this sort of "I'm missing out" thing is on the forefront of your mind I would call it non-beneficial mental noise. Quit twitter, find a hobby - or get seriously interested on some practical problem that is approachable by you and most of all - is intrinsically interesting to you!
Lots of stuff works using principles and systems that are old - some tens of years, some root back a thousands of years.
The function of media is to grab your attention using hooks that are subliminally, compulsively interesting. Ignore that second by second crap and dig in to the root causes of problems. Most things are pretty well researched already and you can get pretty far by developing a learning path of your own.
And if you don't want to - that's ok too! It's your life - live it the best way you can.
What is common with most of these Elon Musks and what ever you got - they lived their life and what they achieved was due to a unique combination of all the genetics and life circumstances that brought them where they went. You can't replicate those circumstances, but what you can do and should do, is live your life.
- rifung 11y agoI dont think that 70k threshold is actually necessarily true. At least according to:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=bMxgVauxMMXooASev4D4CQ&url=http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-money-doesnt-make-you-happy.nov-12-20101.pdf&ved=0CB0QFjAA&usg=AFQjCNE1-_vxt3q9uzPPn7JCHo8_JJQcDg&sig2=uQJjVCrbRBxJBRUjfLy3GA https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=bMxgVaux...
- throwawayaway 11y agohttp://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-money-doesnt-make-you-happy.nov-12-20101.pdf http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-mone... here's the url directly, google search seems to rewrite links in results.
- fsloth 11y agoOk, I oversimplified and am not a specialist anyway :) basically, as I as a layman to current psychological research understand it, 70k gets you to a point where most common financial stressors of an everyday western life can be dealt with withou too much difficulty. Above that should bring you to a place where you have more financial freedom to explore your intrinsic motivations and desires. One can travel and hire personal guides and trainers, etc. Sure, if one absolutely needs to do helicopter bungee jumping above the amazon rainforest to fullfill ones dearest intrinsic drives then yeah, 70k might not cut it :). Otoh if marathon running suffices then that has near zero cost.
- ljk 11y agoIt's funny that I've quit social websites like twitter/fb(only checking messages, not obsessing over people's statuses) but I just spend more time on hn and read about way smarter people writing about way cooler things, I guess in a sense it's more enriching, but also in a way still feeling like OP..
- dcarmo 11y agoI did the same thing and ended up with the same feeling.