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A hundred million dollar you

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Don't just read the question. Stop, right now, and spend a couple of minutes writing a list of the things you'd do differently. ... If your answer is "not much", you're person-bound and not money-bound. You are the rate-limiting factor in progress.1 Isn't that a frightening notion? Of course it's very exciting as well, because it means you're far less constrained than is intuitive - but still frightening and frankly embarrassing, at least to the extent that you're moving slower than you'd like. Part of your brain wants to shed this uncomfortable responsibility, to not see it. The question forces you to see it - the immense practical value of a really large quantity of money is hard to honestly turn away from. It leaves you no retreat along lines of thought like "Well, first I'd need...". Why 100 million, and not 10 million or 10 billion? The psychologically useful threshold probably varies from person to person, so try on a couple of orders of magnitude in your head and see whic

A hundred million dollar you Home A hundred million dollar you Here is a question you can ask to find ways in which you're being lazy, cowardly, or slow in reaching a goal: What would I be doing differently if I had one hundred million dollars? Don't just read the question. Stop, right now, and spend a couple of minutes writing a list of the things you'd do differently. ... If your answer is "not much", you're person-bound and not money-bound. You are the rate-limiting factor in progress. 1 Isn't that a frightening notion? Of course it's very exciting as well, because it means you're far less

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