Karl Pillemer interviewed a thousand elderly Americans looking for the most important lessons they learned from decades of life experience. He wrote: No onenot a single person out of a thousandsaid that to be happy you should try to work as hard as you can to make money to buy the things you want. No onenot a single personsaid its important to be at least as wealthy as the people around you, and if you have more than they do its real success. No onenot a single personsaid you should choose your work based on your desired future earning power.

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel