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Zac Ball's avatar

This is great! It is unfortunate that many people of great talent and skill that the world needs to be out there building the world are saddled with the unearned guilt of their own productivity. I hope they find this and start to see themselves for the heroes they are.

What do you think of businesses who say they need to "give back"?

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Rick Foerster's avatar

One of the keys here seems to be: become intentional or aware of how you will USE money to build the life you want.

Seeing the world of post-exit founders, or rich-PE types… so many seem to have gotten so used to making money or they simply have a talent for it, that they just indiscriminately “want more!”

That drive subordinates all else. And making money has become trained into them as now the ends.

It seems that having some self awareness about those drives, call it guilt or whatever, would be healthy.

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