To be a true goal nerd, you have to win the money game.
This is because both a) money is the abstraction that gives you claim checks to the cooperation of people you will never meet b) the quest to obtain money takes away time from other activities.
Forging local-level acts of cooperation can be free, and probably is best free. That's a key concept I want to explore with my garden more and more. But building a robot? Starting a corporation? These and other truly huge goals are greatly facilitated by financial sorcery. Once you have financial sorcery, you make all sorts of other cool things happen.
I see two strategies:
1.) have a successful business -- this can radically expand your means
2.) follow the path of extreme frugality or even slightly less extreme frugality. A half-decade to a decade of this and your means are also radically expanded. You can have the tools of time, freedom, frugality skills, and free cash flow to routinely get things for 1/4th to 1/5th price. From time to time, you can do even better than that.
With financial sorcery, you can pursue certain goals (the kinds that require the cooperation of strangers) 4 times harder than you otherwise would.
So unless the goal is specifically about your own mind, body, or spirit (which are, I concede, all good places for growth), and only about your own mind, body and spirit, you need financial sorcery.
It is a key tool for social life.
