Most of the people who receive admiration, respect, and love from across the world have one commonality: their mastery over some specific actions. Also, these people are typically very wealthy. Wealthy in terms of money, or power, or love & respect, or a combination of these.
They could be throwing a ball inside a basket, pressing keys on a piano, or performing a brain surgery, but whatever they do, they do it with the level of precision and finesse that’s hard to replicate. And that enables them to create boundless wealth.
How valuable you are depends on how much value you generate for the game you play: your company, your sponsors, your team, your investors, or your society. If you provide value to the stakeholders of your game, they will shower you with money, equity, assets, love, and more.
Here are a few equations. Consider the ‘equal to sign‘ as ‘strongly correlated to‘:
your wealth (w) = the value you create (v)
the value your create (v) = how good you are at your tasks (g)
how good you are at your tasks (g) = f
Where f is defined as: your ability to focus your time and attention to specific things for prolonged periods of time.
Your happiness & peace of mind (h) will strongly correlate with your wealth (w)*. Which simply means,
h = w*
But w = v = g = f, which means,
h = f
Your happiness is strongly correlated to your ability to focus for prolonged durations.
*Possible logical fallacy
If you think that your happiness is not correlated with your wealth, you might be misinterpreting my idea of wealth. Wealth here is a function of factors that make your life worth living.
Typically, w = a combination of money, intellectual satisfaction, love, and health
And to maximise your w, you have to maximise your f. Because that will maximise your h. And that is the purpose of our life, is it not?