Life's Trickiest Trap

There are 5 common ways people try to improve their lives:

1) They spend their money on things or experiences

2) They invest in building relationships with people they love

3) They work on building something meaningful, like a company or a community

4) They work on their health and strive to eliminate chronic pain

5) They devote themselves to spirituality or God.

There are many depressed rich people because they buy into the illusion that kicking ass in the first bucket is sufficient. It's not.

It's actually VERY hard to live a great life without excelling in at least 3 of the latter 4 categories. But those categories don't provide venders quite the profit margins of first category, so Americans frequently don't grow up dreaming about them they way they dream about being materially rich.