Life is really a game but from my perspective there isn't anyway to win or lose, you just have to participate. Money is just another thing you need along the way, no need for high 'scores' it all depends on your comfortable level.
Knowledge is indeed very important and the wider it is the better, if you're specialized into one topic and never even care to learn anything else you wont get to far.
Thanks for sharing such wise words.
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Well, being alive pretty much does ensure participation.
That's how I was trying to explain it to somebody the other day, I was put on this earth not by my choice, I didn't want to grow up and have a career. Now that I'm older and have to think about supporting a lifestyle it's like I have to be here and I have to do this, and I have to do this because i'm alive.
Did somebody just say: Hamster wheel?
you misspelled "rat-race"
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Exactly, there really is no such thing as a lot or little money, it's all relative. To some, a $40,000/year salary would be barely scraping by (think living in NYC), but to others in some countries that would be a king's ransom.
You're so right my friend, it also depends on how your raised. If your raised in a 'poor' family you might have to go through more struggles and learn more along the way, but i'm not say that is how it always works.
great point @jerry12 - I've been lucky enough to have been raised in a nice neighborhood (actually the town where Home Alone was filmed, now you can picture it), loving family, fine with money, etc. Now does that mean I didn't learn as much...? Maybe, or I would say definitely, in some way I didn't learn the same lessons a scrappy street growing up on the streets might learn, nor did I learn the same lessons of the son of a successful investment banking firm might have learned...but some valuable lessons I learned all the same.
I'd conclude by saying we all have our own experience, and learn different "life lessons" from this. Still though, a kid who has everything handed to them on a silver spoon arguably learns a lot less than someone growing up who was forced to accomplish and earn on their own (no matter their financial situation).
Crazy cool you were raised in the same town, I used to watch home alone during Christmas time, almost every year.
I'm not judging you for having a 'good' childhood, I'm glad you had a great time growing up. And I'm not saying I had a hard time, I had a loving family, never been classed as 'rich' but a great family.
And we are all just people, it's not your childhood that determines your future, it's only you, yourself who chooses what to learn and whether you want to learn or not, of course it helps if your curious and interested in learning.
Haha absolutely, no worries I wasn't thinking at all you were judging, I was just reflecting on my personal learning experience in the context of your article and our discussion..yep, everyone has both different opportunities AND choices what to make out of these opportunities.