Much to Well

My path to financial security involved very little out the box thinking. The cold hard reality of London visits while I was working as a Gap Student (teacher’s assistant) made me think 100% pragmatically. I wasn’t starting from nothing. I had already had a great education that gave me options. Networks and education are a form of capital. I studied full time for 4 years, and part time for 4 more. My formal earning period was the decade from 2004 to 2014. I had few enough external obligations to build an Engine. Capital that could earn income. I could decide I had enough. That is the out the box thinking. “How much is enough?” usually comes before "more". To attempt stepping away from filtering my productive hours through the rules of money, constraint had to be self-imposed. I still work. Mostly unpaid. I still tend the Engine, and if I spend consistently more than it makes, it will go bang. A different kind of stress. If the unexpected pops its head, I have to do repairs. In a world addicted to growth, this is a question we are all going to have to answer collectively. When does measuring growth shift from how much we consume? From how much to how well? And obviously, I am able to ask these questions from a very privileged position. The box that matters is shared.