Education is our passport to the future. For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare it today. – Malcolm X
Graduating from CSU-Monterey Bay with a Masters Degree in Buisness Administration today. Living proof that life after sports ain't all that bad.
When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc.
I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins.
It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher.
I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight:
When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.
If you think small, your results will be smaller. If your delusional enough, the results will be extraordinarily big, and even if you don’t reach your outrageous goal, the end results will be bigger than anything you imagined.