Morgan Housel

And I love that game.

I've been playing that game since I was a teenager and I'll keep playing it the rest of my life.

But you have to understand the limitations of it and how much power there is towards it just because you can quantify it, not because it's necessarily going to give you a better life.

I think there are a lot of people who, because it's so easy to quantify, chase it as the ultimate metric to all of their problems, the solution to everything in your life and everything else, your friendships, your relationships, your health that are more important, take a backseat just because you can't measure them.

The only thing I ever wanted out of money...

was independence.

I just wanted to live life on my terms and do what I wanted to do.

And I've known this about myself for a long time that

I can do good work, but I'm not a good worker.

I'm not a good employee.

I'm not good at all when a boss says, here's what I want you to do.

Here's how I want you to do it and when I want you to do it.

I'm a shit worker under those terms.

But if I'm left to my own devices and somebody says, just go do your thing, then I can really accomplish something.

And so I just wanted to be fiercely independent in everything that I do.

And I think every single person has unbelievable talents if they could be left to their own devices.

But a lot of people, once they're under the pressure of other people's goals, other people's ideas, other people's, their financial incentives, you know, are pushed down a notch.

And it's unavoidable.

I'm not saying everybody should go be an entrepreneur, of course.

But I think if you can use financial independence to work at the company that you want, to live where you want, to live in an area that gives you a lower commute, to retire when you want, whatever it might be, that to me, I'm not anti-materialistic at all.