Dave Asprey argues that chasing money at the expense of happiness is a trap. He pushes back on the idea that success means wealth and status, saying the real win is building a life where you actually enjoy what you do and have time for the people you care about.
I'm not naive. I love when people think and consume my content and you think I'm delusional. No, you're not. I know that you have debt. I know that you have bills to pay. I'm talking that happiness is worth fighting for. Happiness is worth selling your home to get out of debt and rent a house or an apartment. Even though the you're all. All of you are not doing this because of judgment. Happiness is fighting for if you're job is killing you, don't come home and use Netflix or food or alcohol or video games or go into your favorite sports team's games as your escape from work. Use those evenings to crush on LinkedIn to get a job offer to get you out of it. You cannot. With the amount that the world works. Even though we've got it better, we're better than we've been with work life balance in America, by the way, on work life balance. So some people are a pig in shit working 70 hours a week. Some people are devastated working 25 hours a week. When it's not right, you must fight to change it. Even if you have to take a step back in front of all your family and friends with your luxuries. Go exchange the BMW to the dealership and drive a Toyota. Don't go to the Four Seasons when you go to Disney. Go to the Holiday Inn like I did when I was a kid. Like it's okay. Don't buy seven. I'm sorry on this one, David. Don't buy $7 coffee. Make your own tea for a little while. Reform your dollars to give you the breathing room to reset your life. Because if you do not like what you do, it encapsulates your entire. It suffocates everything. That's entrepreneurship. That's work. That's my relationship with it. And just like with food and mentality, we've made huge advancements in the last 20 years. I don't believe that we've gotten to the 301, 401 conversation. I believe what I'm talking about today, which is not the common talk of entrepreneurship, will become the normalized talk in 25 years that we'll understand that the joy of the process, not the riches we get from it, is the game of entrepreneurship and work. And that is what we have to fight for.
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