I wrote this on Reddit earlier, unaware that it was about to blow up. I’ll share it, who knows who it could benefit!

The purpose of wealth is freedom.

If you are still a young adult chasing your dreams and maybe success, well, probably success, let me be clear:

Seek to provide value to humanity. 

This will be the gold that you carry to your grave.

This will be the treasure that no governments, no regulations, no banks, and no divorce, will ever be able to take away from you and the rest of the world.

By providing value, and making that your objective, you run the risk of making money along the way. It will be a side-effect. 

A mentor once told me this and it really changed something in my mentality. Where I used to seek to provide products, now I seek to help people. Who knows where it'll go, but it feels so much more right.

I just wanted to share this with you all.

Out.

JP

UPDATE:

I'll share a short story with you all. I feel this is a casual post, and maybe we can all turn down the knob of pretense for a point and come as one community. I wish we could all be together around a table with beers, it'd be epic!

Anyway, here's a short story on the wealthiest man I ever met.

At a point in my life, I was in a remote and non-touristic part of Ecuador. I stopped with my Jeep somewhere to grab a nice shot of the Jeep in an epic scenery. As I was climbing back, this man – this man far away– starts running towards me with the biggest smile I ever have seen.

He spoke a tiny bit of English, and invited me to have a piece of cake at his bakery. I obliged. He started this small bakery to support his daughter's future education. This man... this man had a heart of gold.

He first REFUSED that I pay for whatever I wanted. He was just so happy, so happy, to have a Canadian in his shop. I ended up paying him (of course) for cakes (I bought way too many for a single man) to support him, but I think about this old man every day, for the last 900 days: he gave me more than cake: he gave me the knowledge about the power of the gift economy.

He had a small business – but he actually built himself an empire built on kindness and greatness. He enacted on the greatness of his character to deliver something of value to the world, through the education of his daughter. It was not THE WHOLE WORLD, but it was for ONE human being. He won't ever be a billionaire, but he's richer than most folks I ever met on Earth. 

Carl Jung said that people don't see god because they don't look low enough. Exactly.