> Maybe they’ve gotten bored with making so much money and want to focus on something else, or maybe they truly believe their sense of business success directly translates to owning the secret elixir of happiness…
I think what you're seeing is a move up the "value chain" of life quality.
Massively successful people almost always sacrifice a lot (some might say "most everything else") to achieve their success -- this almost always includes quality of life, unless the person happens to really love their work and balance life with other people who think differently well.
Once all these people were able to achieve success in one or a few parts of their lives, they were finally able to turn and focus on the parts of their lives that were lacking (and paradoxically are the most important over the "longest" run).
Maybe the way to happiness that they've found is so profound that they hoped someone would tell them earlier so they're trying to right the world. A more cynical take is that they've prematurely decided they've cracked the happiness problem and are looking for a place to declare victory.
That said, being massively successful economically or otherwise doesn't mean people *don't* have good tips, but those people often don't go out of their way to write books about them unless they're obsessed with solving that problem, and if they were, you'd have heard about them already. The best advice is probably also pretty obvious-sounding as well -- not much to make a book out of.
Good read as always. Another interesting correlation may be one between allocation of time vs happiness, as time is more equalized than money (though not entirely equal, as advanced societies or privileged individuals tend to see higher life expectancy).
Interesting read!
> Maybe they’ve gotten bored with making so much money and want to focus on something else, or maybe they truly believe their sense of business success directly translates to owning the secret elixir of happiness…
I think what you're seeing is a move up the "value chain" of life quality.
Massively successful people almost always sacrifice a lot (some might say "most everything else") to achieve their success -- this almost always includes quality of life, unless the person happens to really love their work and balance life with other people who think differently well.
Once all these people were able to achieve success in one or a few parts of their lives, they were finally able to turn and focus on the parts of their lives that were lacking (and paradoxically are the most important over the "longest" run).
Maybe the way to happiness that they've found is so profound that they hoped someone would tell them earlier so they're trying to right the world. A more cynical take is that they've prematurely decided they've cracked the happiness problem and are looking for a place to declare victory.
That said, being massively successful economically or otherwise doesn't mean people *don't* have good tips, but those people often don't go out of their way to write books about them unless they're obsessed with solving that problem, and if they were, you'd have heard about them already. The best advice is probably also pretty obvious-sounding as well -- not much to make a book out of.
Good read as always. Another interesting correlation may be one between allocation of time vs happiness, as time is more equalized than money (though not entirely equal, as advanced societies or privileged individuals tend to see higher life expectancy).