10-17-2016, 04:30 PM
(10-17-2016, 02:07 PM)ffaux Wrote: The question you're not asking is: how happy we're those people within themselves? If they were happy, why were they spending so much effort and energy seeking happiness outside of themselves (money, women) instead of just enjoying their happiness. Happiness is inside, not outside, and as long as you're chasing happiness outside you will never find it.
You know, this is an interesting question and raises a point that I have often run into with many of my friends. Living in NYC and having a past life in Wall Street, a lot of my friends moved over from IB to PE and Hedge Funds now and many of them have 9 Digit net worths.
Being part of that scene, I can tell you one thing, none of them looked at ever being happy. I don't think they looked for power either. It's something else that drove them. Adrenaline.
These guys live for the deal, display these hard driving kill tactics and blow off their steam at parties and with women, alcohol, and coke binges. They don't really care about much. After a while the money doesn't mean anything to them.
I had a friend that actually went in on a deal that was valued at 4 Billion and by the time he was done with the company - the total value shot down to 100 million. You'd think that would be enough to kill him in the game. No - he did his next deal better and played his piece up.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is, the guys who live the wolf of wall street life, they really are like animals. They are pure predators interested only in the hunt. Happiness and love aren't exactly emotions that drive them.
I'm not saying one is better than the other, both are different and have very different emotions. I bring this up because I feel like Sarge and Chaos may be walking a different line, and that line is very finely defined.
