I wish I’d seen this post sooner, having pretty much all my options greyed out all the time is something I’ve been struggling with a lot until recently. But about your comment specifically, I’m particularly curious about “altering one’s personality”, and maybe even more so about “buying a blue-collar business as investment”. Would you mind expanding a bit on those?
Taking a loan to buy a blue collar business, improving its productivity and automating parts of it then hiring a manager and having passive income.
Shopping at places with the wrong class connotations in either direction
Getting very good at things via deliberate practice, especially soft skills
Making philosophical progress, especially personal progress
Paying large one time costs, monetary, social (geographically moving), time (search costs)
Addressing core causes of overwhelm and greying out
Requesting help from others in working through a problem
Exiting toxic social scenes or relationships (incl. Eg parents etc)
Feeling good, especially for no reason
Getting rid of physical belongings
Substantive debate about cruxy questions
Altering your personality (eg big five)
Taking up major new hobbies in adulthood
I wish I’d seen this post sooner, having pretty much all my options greyed out all the time is something I’ve been struggling with a lot until recently. But about your comment specifically, I’m particularly curious about “altering one’s personality”, and maybe even more so about “buying a blue-collar business as investment”. Would you mind expanding a bit on those?