Maybe there is that link you assert. I'm not sure tho, what you are saying... I do enjoy the nature of getting more value for work, and I have a passing interest in entrepreneurship, in that it usually involves an interesting challenge. I am however, very unmotivated by money (and value as measured by it) as an end.
To me money is merely a means. The real goals are:
* Interesting problems
* Interesting people interactions
* adventures
* access to cool toys/equipment (and the actual need for it)
* changing environment
Money just pays the bills and puts food on the table. I personally have a long history of maximizing the points above (the money has been good enough to not be a problem too :)). Sure, I could work real hard, and get the money to enable the rest, but the net money and benefits would probably be the same, but for more work. Instead I build a way to get my goals into my environment.
Yea that definitely does. I am trying to live my life after I graduate from school the same way. My biggest fear is sitting at a desk doing nothing of importance for the next 40 years. Being from a small town and living a pretty boring life for my first quarter I want to have adventure and not just horde piles of junk.
To me money is merely a means. The real goals are:
* Interesting problems * Interesting people interactions * adventures * access to cool toys/equipment (and the actual need for it) * changing environment
Money just pays the bills and puts food on the table. I personally have a long history of maximizing the points above (the money has been good enough to not be a problem too :)). Sure, I could work real hard, and get the money to enable the rest, but the net money and benefits would probably be the same, but for more work. Instead I build a way to get my goals into my environment.
Does this match what you were saying?