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Growing Up: No one cares about your Rolex
Hey team,
Quick one from me this week!
I regret that I wasn't able to deliver the Growing Up newsletter to your inboxes yesterday. However, in the hope that you may prefer receiving 400 words from me rather than zero, I thought I'd share the most thought-provoking thing I read this past week...
It’s from Chris Williamson’s 3 Minute Monday newsletter (coincidentally the newsletter that inspired me to write this one) and it's very on trend with the Growing Up theme.
This is it:
Nobody richer than you cares about your Rolex. — Nicolas Cole
Not huge on the "below you" part... I think life becomes a lot easier when we realise that no one is better or worse than us and we aren't better or worse than anyone. Maybe that's part of the idea here... if you hold the belief that some people are "above" you then you are always chasing something and no amount of Rolexes will extinguish the sense of inferiority or "not enoughness" that you carry around...
Reminds me of a story I read yesterday in finance writer Morgan Housel's book The Psychology of Money (more on this another day). John Bogle tells the story... (he's the American investor who founded the Vanguard Group, and is credited with inventing the index fund. He died in 2019... Vanguard is a massive investment management company who manage over 7 trillion USD worth of assets. Index investing is the idea that you can buy a fund that tracks the performance of the market, rather than buying lots of individual stocks yourself...)
As always, keen to hear thoughts and I look forward to sending you a proper essay next week! I think I might share some fascinating science from Matthew Walker’s, Why We Sleep…
Until then, enjoy your weekends!
xx Delia
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Hi! I'm Delia Burgess
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