A short YouTube clip (Capitalism.com, July 5, 2022) featuring Ryan Daniel Moran reflecting on his financial failures and learnings. He states he lost at least $1 million and observes that his most successful projects were those pursued from curiosity rather than for maximizing money, describing the latter as stressful while curiosity-driven work feels liberating.
I lost at least $1 million. The major financial ouches that I have made, and I have several, all of them I started only for the money. All of them I did because they made sense or because the return justified what I was doing. And the things that have worked out the most, I had the least attachment to the money. In some way, I wish it wasn't so, but now that I'm realizing it, it's actually very liberating to think about, because I can't tell you how much energy I have spent in my young life thinking about how to maximize the money. And it's never exciting to think about. It's kind of like I actually feel stressed thinking about it, but if I'm just pursuing my own curiosity, it's actually this very liberating feeling.
