A billion dollars isn't what it used to be

A Just One Playbook excerpt

— Would a billion dollars be something you might be interested in?

Don’t be so sure. If you’re happy poor, you’ll be very, very, very happy rich (as Mark Cuban says).

But if you’re not happy while at least having food and a roof above your head every day, then you most likely won’t be happy with a lot of money either.

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The problem with living through the eyes of others

Don’t try to look cool, you’ve already failed just by bothering to.

Let personal, absolute, preferences guide you, not relative positioning. Money, fame and status can be means to an end, but not an end in themselves