Money is a tool that enables us to reach other goals. We get so caught up in the goal of having enough money, we forget that money is just a tool. It's something that we work towards that gives us the opportunity to do other important things. The deeper questions are, why am i here? Who i and who are those people that i'm most connected to? I think we sometimes avoid those deeper issues because it's easier and focus on money instead. And this was a big aha for me, because through most of my life, particularly my twenties, my goals revolved around reaching a certain net worth. That financial goal itself should be contectualized merely as a
#355: When Jordan Grumet realized he has achieved financial independence, he fell into a deep depression. He didn’t know who he was anymore, he says, and he didn’t know what should come next.
He learned about how to deal with us by observing his hospice patients. In this episode, Grumet, a hospice doctor, describes how working with the dying has taught him about life.
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