When i first started investing, my goal was financial freedom. I think over time, i've really evolved way from that. The motivation for retiring early is, you don't want to do whatever you're currently doing. So the objective of being able to retire early just isn't, doesn't have the same appeal as it maybe had when i was younger. For me,  investing represents kind of the ultimate allenge, right? You're essentially competing against millions of other extremely intelligent people trying to make smart investment decisions. It's the challenge, the kind of infinite pool that you can learn and learn and learn, and never really exhaust the depths of all the to learn. But