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Wealth Management & Retirement
Tag: happiness
Why Viewing Life as a Competitive Game Destroys True Happiness and Relationships
You hear the phrase "the game of life" all the time. It rolls off the tongue in casual conversation, appears frequently in literature, and serves as the underlying premise for countless pop-culture artifacts. There are entire books on Amazon instructing readers on how to win at the "game of life." Milton Bradley’s iconic board game,…
From Solitude to Paternity: How Fatherhood and Financial Independence Rewrote One Blogger’s Philosophy on Happiness
For years, the personal finance community knew him as a vocal proponent of a solitary, self-reliant path. Having achieved financial independence (FI), he had built a life defined by freedom, pursuing long-term personal goals like earning a free Ivy League degree and releasing a music album without the constraints of a traditional career. Along the…
Why Treating Life Like a Competitive Game Destroys Real Happiness and Relationships
You hear the phrase "the game of life" all the time. It permeates cultural shorthand, appearing in casual conversation, television commercials, and self-help literature designed to instruct readers on how to come out on top. Milton Bradley’s board game, The Game of Life, originally introduced in 1860 and still widely sold today, was even the…
