A short spoken piece by Dan Novaes arguing that money alone cannot buy happiness. He explains that wealth often functions as a 'scoreboard' and that billionaires remain susceptible to the same feelings as anyone else; happiness is an internal state and not solved by buying more luxury items. He concedes that extreme lack of money makes a real difference but asserts that beyond basic needs additional money has diminishing returns for happiness.
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Even when you hit success, you still are not going to feel 100% because that's just how things work. You have to find that within of what you are proud of yourself that you did or are doing and then just moving forward. So I think that even if they were a billionaire, that person will still feel the same way. That's why most billionaires, it's like they look at money, it's just really a scoreboard and it doesn't matter. Like if you're worth like 100 million bucks and you lose $10 million, it sucks. But I assure you that it doesn't make a real big difference in their lives. Like 10 million bucks here or there, if you have 100 million, if you have 10k and you lose one, it's kind of like, well, I still 9k, it sucks. But it's just a scoreboard though, and no one likes losing. You see, it's like when you're playing any game, you don't want to lose. And so these are the types of things that knowing that even if you're a billionaire, you're not going to not feel this way. Like you're going to be happy. If you're happy poor, you will be happy rich. It might be accentuated after a certain point. Obviously if you're like literally struggling to make ends meet, there's a big difference, but it doesn't buy happiness. Like I assure you, like you ask any of these famous guys that are worth over 100 million bucks, 10 million bucks, whatever, they can't buy another Ferrari to make them happy. They can already buy any. So there's not a new Ferrari that's going to make them happy. So see, it's like limited. Sick of wasting all this money. Follow us and get all of our hacks for free.
