They said life was supposed to be "fun"

not a materialism arms race

Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash | what I imagine self-help gurus look like when the camera is turned off.

Alex Hormozi just said cooking is a waste of time.

He said (paraphrase incoming) that if you make more than $15 an hour, it is more beneficial to outsource your cooking and make money instead.

What kind of messed up, 1984, Elon Musk as president world are we living in? How is cooking not cool anymore?

Just because you can snag an overpriced, undersized chicken burrito from Chipotle doesn’t mean the entire idea of cooking is useless.

Life isn’t meant to be an over-optimized slog that leaves you depressed and depraved because doing what you love isn’t “optimal.” Everyone spews out the classic cookie-cutter responses about how “reading fiction is a waste of time” and “9-5’s are slowly killing you.”

Not everything you do needs to make money. Frankly, the sheer idea of money as an idolized life pursuit seems incredibly shallow.

Sometimes people want to have fun.

Call me a nerd and try to steal my lunch money, but reading fiction is just entertaining. It brings me joy, even if it doesn’t bring me six figures.

Not every action needs to be meticulously crafted to achieve some business goal or pad out a bank account. Life is more than that.

In death, the only thing separating a rich man from a poor man is the coffin’s price tag.

I get it—money’s nice. Personally, I love money. And maybe for some people, money isn’t just a means to an end—it is the end. And for those people, I’m happy that you’ve found something you love.

For those who want more, don’t let the world convince you that you need to make a million dollars by your 30th birthday. They aren’t living your life through your eyes.

You only get one life, so don’t spend it living like someone else.

If you wear a mask and play a part, as the curtains close and the spotlight dims you’ll realize that life isn’t a dress rehearsal. It’s a play with no practice and no script. When you’re born, you get thrust onto the stage whether you want to or not.

You either live or act.

There’s a classic phrase: “Dead at 25 buried at 80.” People reach their deathbed and realize they spent their whole life playing a part they didn’t want to play.

Don’t optimize the fun out of life. Because, at the end of the day, what are we here to do, if not to make some friends and have some fun?

—Charlie

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