The Value or Cost of Something Is the Quantity of Life Energy You Exchange for It

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The value or cost of something being the amount of life energy you exchange for it. And what I've noticed for a lot of my friends is that past a certain point, wealth actually turns into a energy consuming facet of their lives. People can be very happy and very often are very upbeat when they can hold in their mind the belief that once they cross the finish line, these problems we've fixed. Once they have the money, more often than not, they realize that's not the case. The psychological psycho emotional issues tend to not just not get fixed, but sometimes get exaggerated.

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Timestamps:

Roelof Botha: 00:03:17

Will MacAskill: 00:08:46

Russ Roberts: 00:14:02

Andrew Weil: 00:23:47

Tim Q&A: 00:27:54

Full episode titles:

Roelof Botha — Investing with the Best, Ulysses Pacts, The Magic of Founder-Problem Fit, How to Use Pre-Mortems and Pre-Parades, Learning from Crucible Moments, and Daring to Dream (#618)

Will MacAskill of Effective Altruism Fame — The Value of Longtermism, Tools for Beating Stress and Overwhelm, AI Scenarios, High-Impact Books, and How to Save the World and Be an Agent of Change (#612)

Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision-Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions That Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Transcendence (#613)