Money & Ambition
Wealth psychology, the hedonic treadmill, and what the word 'enough' actually means once you've had some.
I bought a $40-million house and was anxious about money the next morning. That's the whole thing, really. The book is called Never Enough because the title is a confession, not a thesis.
For years I thought there was a number that would make the noise stop. There isn't. There's a number that makes a different kind of noise start, which I wasn't expecting and which nobody warned me about because the people who reach it mostly stop talking about money in public. So they trade tips at dinners with twelve other people who also have it, and the rest of the world is left with the Forbes list and a vague suspicion that the wealthy must be happy because, well, look at them.
This section is the part of the book I keep being told I shouldn't have written. It's about the house I bought and what it actually solved (less than I expected). It's about the decade I wasted chasing a number instead of figuring out who I was. It's about hedonic adaptation, status anxiety, comparison, and the cold little voice that tells you the next $10M will be the one that finally lands.
If you came here from the Tiny pieces expecting more business advice, this is the other half of the answer. You might also like the things I got wrong.
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