Why money can't buy happiness | Daniel Sachau | TEDxMNSU

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Summary

TLDRVideo ini menerangkan bahawa walaupun wang dapat menghilangkan kesusahan, ia tidak dapat membeli kebahagiaan. Penyelidikan menunjukkan bahawa setelah keperluan asas dipenuhi, tambahan wang tidak meningkatkan kepuasan hidup. Harapan kita terhadap kebahagiaan meningkat dengan peningkatan kekayaan, yang menyebabkan kita tidak pernah merasa cukup. Contoh-contoh dari pengalaman peribadi dan kajian tentang pemenang loteri menunjukkan bahawa harapan yang semakin meningkat menghalang kebahagiaan. Oleh itu, penting untuk mencari keamanan dan keselesaan dalam hidup, bukannya mengejar materialisme yang tidak berkesudahan.

Takeaways

  • 💰 Wang tidak dapat membeli kebahagiaan.
  • 📈 Harapan kita meningkat dengan kekayaan.
  • 🏡 Cari keamanan dan keselesaan dalam hidup.
  • 🚫 Jangan terjebak dalam materialisme.
  • 💡 Hiduplah dalam kemampuan anda.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Penyelidikan menunjukkan bahawa kekayaan tidak menjamin kebahagiaan. Walaupun kekurangan wang boleh menyebabkan kesengsaraan, setelah keperluan asas dipenuhi, wang tambahan tidak meningkatkan kepuasan. Kajian tentang pemenang loteri menunjukkan bahawa walaupun mereka gembira selepas menang, kebahagiaan mereka kembali kepada tahap biasa dalam setahun. Ini menunjukkan bahawa harapan dan jangkaan memainkan peranan penting dalam kepuasan hidup.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Salah satu sebab mengapa wang tidak membeli kebahagiaan adalah kerana harapan kita sentiasa meningkat. Apabila kita mempunyai lebih daripada yang kita jangkakan, kita berasa gembira, tetapi apabila harapan kita meningkat, kita menjadi tidak puas. Contoh yang diberikan adalah tentang kereta pertama yang dimiliki, di mana pengalaman dengan kereta lain meningkatkan jangkaan dan keinginan untuk memiliki sesuatu yang lebih baik.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:31

    Akhirnya, penekanan diberikan kepada idea bahawa mencari kebahagiaan melalui materialisme adalah tidak berkesudahan. Terdapat risiko terjebak dalam 'treadmill kepuasan', di mana kita terus mencari lebih banyak tanpa pernah merasa puas. Sebaliknya, penting untuk menyedari bahawa wang boleh memberikan keselamatan tetapi tidak kebahagiaan. Matlamat seharusnya adalah untuk hidup dengan selesa dan menghargai apa yang kita miliki, bukannya mengejar materialisme.

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Video Q&A

  • Adakah wang boleh membeli kebahagiaan?

    Tidak, setelah keperluan asas dipenuhi, wang tambahan tidak meningkatkan kebahagiaan.

  • Apa yang menyebabkan harapan kita meningkat?

    Harapan kita meningkat seiring dengan peningkatan kekayaan dan materialisme.

  • Apa yang harus kita cari dalam hidup?

    Kita harus mencari keamanan dan keselesaan, bukan materialisme yang tidak berkesudahan.

  • Bagaimana cara mengelakkan kekecewaan dalam hidup?

    Hiduplah dalam kemampuan anda dan simpan wang untuk menghadapi masa sukar.

  • Apa yang dimaksudkan dengan 'treadmill kepuasan'?

    Ia merujuk kepada usaha tanpa henti untuk mencapai kebahagiaan melalui materialisme.

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    you've all heard the phrase
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    money won't buy happiness
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    and it turns out it's true
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    research by psychologist and sociologist
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    and economist shows that while the
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    absence of money poverty makes people
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    miserable
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    once their basic needs are met
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    additional money does not translate into
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    higher levels of satisfaction
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    now at this point many of you are
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    thinking
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    put me in that study
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    i mean you're thinking you flood my life
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    with cash i'll get back to you on
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    whether i'm happy or not
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    well strangely that study's been done a
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    few times there's a number of
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    researchers who've looked at lottery
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    winners and what they find is
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    immediately after somebody wins the
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    lottery they're happy they're ecstatic
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    one year later they're only slightly
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    happier than the average person okay
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    the question i've been asking over the
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    last 20
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    or so years is
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    why
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    it sure feels like money should make us
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    happy
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    why doesn't it okay and i think there's
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    a variety of reasons
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    but one of the key reasons has to do
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    with expectations
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    our satisfaction depends on expectations
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    basically
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    for any kind of material possession or
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    income or status
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    when we have more than we expected
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    we're happy
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    when we have less than we expected we're
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    unhappy when we get what we expect we're
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    just kind of comfortable now that's not
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    the reason money won't buy happiness the
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    reason money won't buy happiness is our
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    expectations escalate and once they do
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    they don't easily de-escalate some
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    people call that a ratchet effect you
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    know what a ratchet wrench is it's one
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    of those wrenches you put on top of the
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    bolt and it clicks one way and you pull
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    against it the other
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    there's a ratchet in our expectations
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    uh let me give you some examples i think
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    it's best to illustrate it
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    i think about that first car you were
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    ever able to drive for me it was a
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    1962 volkswagen beetle
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    and all that car had to do was get me
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    away from my parents house and i was
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    happy with it and i polished the rust on
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    it and
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    it
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    and it was great
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    until i rode in my friend johnny meyer
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    he had a 1968 volkswagen beetle and his
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    car started on a regular basis
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    and it had heat
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    and as soon as i got in johnny's car i'm
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    like you know what my 62 volkswagen's
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    not maybe the greatest thing ever maybe
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    i need a little nicer car
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    and
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    then of course i had chance to ride with
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    other friends and you know the pinnacle
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    from a high school kid in the 70s was
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    another friend who had a trans am you
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    know like the that big bird on the front
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    and if you ride in a trans am there's no
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    going back to a volkswagen
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    and that's the problem
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    of escalating expectations now
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    maybe cars aren't your thing let me show
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    you another example a few years ago uh
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    we went up to i took a group of students
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    and we went up to lake minnetonka now
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    lake minnetonka is this gorgeous lake
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    west of the twin cities and it's home to
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    rich people and celebrities and record
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    producers and regular folks it's a great
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    place
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    and uh
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    that we all went up there we rented a
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    boat we drove down the way a little bit
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    we saw this first place and
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    i thought wow wouldn't it be great if i
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    could have a cabin on lake minnetonka
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    i'd come up here any weekend i want and
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    i and i got to have a a dock i got to
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    have the and there's i think if you look
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    closely there might even be a there's a
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    grill there that's all i need if you
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    give me this cabin the stock this grill
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    i will be perfectly happy i will not
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    need more okay
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    well we float a little further
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    and i'm like oh wait
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    i think i would rather have a house with
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    you know a roof that's been redone so i
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    don't have to fool around with that and
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    look it's got windows that are solid and
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    oh it's got a chris craft an old antique
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    inboard and if you're going to be on
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    schmancy lake minnetonka that would be a
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    very cool boat to have and it's got
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    adirondack chairs i need those
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    and then i'm thinking well that first
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    place i looked at wasn't so great this
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    is what i need
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    until
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    i see this
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    and my thought is all right
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    a brand new place not very big
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    made of bricks and then a great big dock
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    so i could have a boat a giant cabin
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    cruiser so that i could spend you know
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    the evenings in the in the little cabin
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    and the great big cabin cruiser and in
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    the dock this would just be great this
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    is exactly what i need okay
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    this is what it would take to make me
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    happy
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    well
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    here comes the next
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    one wait a minute i don't need just a
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    cabinet i need to move up here
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    i need this big house i need uh you know
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    i want to you know be honest to the log
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    cabin lodge feel with this uh and that's
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    what i need and it's got both the uh the
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    outboard the chris craft and i'm gonna
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    need a fishing boat and it's got a
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    striped yard and i really would like
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    that striped yard
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    okay
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    and i'm happy with that i said wow
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    imagine the fun i would have the people
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    who would come to visit who would hang
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    out here we would have a great time this
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    is what it would take to make me happy
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    well you can probably guess what's
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    coming next
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    it's this house here's a
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    a brand new house made to look old and
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    it is awesome
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    now i got to be honest with you you know
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    where this is go when these houses are
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    getting bigger and they're getting so
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    big now that it's hard to get them in
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    the full frame
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    right so just find a door and that's
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    about the height of a person and this
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    place is magnificent it's got its own
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    swimming area and it's got all the boats
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    it's got the cruiser it's got the ranger
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    the bass boat it's got jet ski a little
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    fleet of jet skis
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    and if you look closely
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    i think there is like a guest house in
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    the back of it
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    and uh
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    i thought as well that'd be great i
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    could have people come visit
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    my closest dearest friends and then not
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    have to stay in the same house as them
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    that's what i want
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    this is what would make me happy
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    until
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    i see this house and i'm like okay i
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    don't need anything that looks old i
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    want something that's new
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    and pretentious
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    okay
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    and i'm gonna tell you it's pretentious
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    because get this it's been torn down so
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    that somebody could build a bigger place
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    okay
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    uh but it's wonderful look at it it's
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    beautiful house it's in the better part
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    of the lake because apparently it's not
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    just living on lake minnetonka it's the
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    best neighborhood on lake minnetonka
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    it's the cleaner water the deeper water
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    there's all this other stuff that
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    factors into it and i think
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    okay whoever lives there must be
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    ecstatic they must love their life how
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    happy they must be
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    and then
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    i see this now
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    i can't get it all in the frame it is
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    enormous
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    it's three full floors if you look
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    closely you can see one of those
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    umbrellas that they put out over a
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    picnic table imagine a person could fit
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    under there and there it is it's
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    magnificent it's got seven
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    smoke stacks and it's got
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    certainly guests i'll bet it's called a
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    compound and i want a compound
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    now think about this
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    early in the morning of that day i just
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    wanted a little cabin a place i could go
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    hang out
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    but by later in the day i needed the
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    biggest house on lake minnetonka
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    i don't know
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    15 000 square feet
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    there's i think my wife and i could live
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    in fifth we could be in separate
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    counties
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    right they people call each other in
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    this house now did your taste escalate
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    here's the test
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    remember this little place right here
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    it would have been the dream cabin with
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    just a big boat in the and that house
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    well i've been a little bit deceptive
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    it's actually the boat house
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    for the mansion
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    that's where they store inner tubes
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    that's the inner tube house
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    right
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    now
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    you can have your taste escalate for
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    cars
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    and
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    and for mansions right uh and i got to
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    thinking about this i thought i wonder
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    if there's
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    is there any product that's not
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    aspirational that that you think if i
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    just have this next thing then i'll be
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    really really happy so what i did is uh
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    yesterday morning i just turned on
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    television and googled a couple things
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    on the youtube channel there and i said
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    all right let's just i'm going to search
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    under the terms finest or
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    nicest or best and
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    here's what came up okay uh just just
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    from just yesterday
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    cars
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    tons of cars lots and lots of cars
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    not just the finest cars the finest
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    rolls royces
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    so think about that
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    you get enough money to buy a rolls
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    royce and suddenly there's a youtube
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    video that says you don't have the best
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    rolls royce
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    you need an even better one
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    of course
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    there was an unlimited number of houses
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    like this and if you think about it
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    there is a network channel that's
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    dedicated to making you unhappy with the
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    current house you live in
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    i mean isn't that what happens on house
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    and garden tv it just keeps getting
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    nicer nice and you think oh gosh my
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    ceilings have that popcorn stuff on them
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    and apparently
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    they hate popcorn ceilings
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    and then within the house everything is
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    escalating then you can start with a
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    little refrigerator then you get the
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    sub-zero refrigerant you get the walk-in
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    refrigerator you get uh better stoves
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    and better ovens even towel bars
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    you can get heated towel bars and i made
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    fun of that but i bet it's great
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    and and i bet it's hard to go back to
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    just good old room temperature
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    towels once you've had that there's no
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    end to the handbags the shoes the
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    designer stuff the makeup stuff
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    um and i mean no end what's
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    i don't know what does nail polish cost
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    anybody
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    what's a little bottle of nail polish
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    cost
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    pardon
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    eight dollars
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    okay eight dollars you know how much you
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    can spend on nail polish if you want to
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    i'll tell you
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    267
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    580
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    apparently it's got little diamonds in
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    it that
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    i guess at the end of the day you just
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    throw them away because you're that rich
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    i even asked the question all right i
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    get it for commercial products what
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    about like commodities like the two most
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    common things in the world are water and
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    salt right salt salt of the earth it's
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    absolutely everywhere i thought these
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    have got to be the things there's no
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    aspirational water is there
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    uh yeah yes there is
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    you can spend uh one thousand one
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    hundred dollars on a single bottle of
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    water drinking water
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    okay nothing else special other than you
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    know crystal decander but it's a
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    thousand dollars for water okay you've
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    got a lot of money if you're spending a
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    thousand dollars for water how about
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    salt
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    uh salt if you get the fancy morton salt
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    it's three cents
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    uh an ounce okay
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    but apparently
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    you can buy a special salt that costs
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    thirty six dollars an ounce okay
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    now unless that's made of salt extracted
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    from the tears of elvis
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    i can't imagine why it would cost so
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    much okay so the message here is there's
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    no end to the escalation of our tastes
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    if we're trying to find long-term life
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    satisfaction from material things from
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    status all right so you might ask
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    yourself
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    is that discouraging
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    and the answer is well it kind of
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    depends i think the message is both
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    discouraging
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    and freeing depending on how you think
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    about it so you really got a couple
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    options
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    option number one
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    stay on the treadmill try to find
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    happiness by buying the next new thing
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    getting a job where you make more money
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    only to buy a more expensive version of
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    the thing only to find a bigger fancier
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    job and it just never ends okay you
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    could stay on the treadmill but the
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    danger is you start leading a lifestyle
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    in service
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    of this material stuff you take a job
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    you don't like because it pays a lot you
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    give up your hobbies because you got to
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    go make a bunch of money to live with
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    fancier things you give up your friends
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    you stay away from your family so
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    there's a real danger to running on the
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    treadmill daniel kahneman the
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    psychologist and a nobel laureate calls
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    it the satisfaction treadmill because
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    you never get to the end to the end of
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    it all right
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    second
  • 00:13:56
    uh the other alternative is is to
  • 00:13:58
    realize
  • 00:13:59
    that there's only so much you can get
  • 00:14:01
    from money and material possessions you
  • 00:14:04
    know and think of it this way
  • 00:14:07
    money can make you miserable
  • 00:14:09
    but there's no amount of money that'll
  • 00:14:11
    make you happy
  • 00:14:12
    so maybe the goal is to just be
  • 00:14:14
    comfortable
  • 00:14:15
    to seek security not ecstasy
  • 00:14:18
    so what's that mean it means if you're
  • 00:14:20
    living a pretty good life and you're
  • 00:14:22
    pretty comfortable maybe you try to put
  • 00:14:24
    a lid on your expectations realize that
  • 00:14:27
    you've got it good don't try to find too
  • 00:14:29
    much don't sacrifice your the job you
  • 00:14:31
    love and the friends you have just so
  • 00:14:33
    you can have more money so you can have
  • 00:14:35
    nicer things live within your means save
  • 00:14:38
    money
  • 00:14:39
    and invest money so you can weather uh
  • 00:14:42
    the financial storms that might hit your
  • 00:14:44
    life
  • 00:14:45
    and uh be comfortable with it
  • 00:14:47
    okay
  • 00:14:48
    so
  • 00:14:49
    uh to summarize here we go
  • 00:14:53
    there's no amount of money that will
  • 00:14:54
    make you happy there's no amount of
  • 00:14:55
    status that'll make you happy there's no
  • 00:14:58
    there's no jewelry where you'll finally
  • 00:15:00
    get the right piece of jewelry and go
  • 00:15:01
    that's it i have achieved
  • 00:15:03
    nirvana
  • 00:15:05
    it isn't going to happen you won't find
  • 00:15:07
    long-term happiness and the accumulation
  • 00:15:09
    of material
  • 00:15:10
    possessions what you can find with money
  • 00:15:13
    is security you should look for the
  • 00:15:15
    opportunity to not worry about money so
  • 00:15:18
    save enough that you can weather the
  • 00:15:20
    storms stay within your means and you'll
  • 00:15:22
    be happier well you'll certainly be more
  • 00:15:26
    comfortable
  • 00:15:27
    thank you
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