The best thing I can say is don't think about money if you are pursuing greatness. If you look at great people, they never do it for money. Scientists work with dedication but they don't expect to become billionaires. Even billionaires themselves probably don't do it for money. Sounds unbelievable, right? Just think about it this way. If you just want to be filthy rich, a 100 million dollars will keep you wealthy for the generations to come. Or how about a 500 million dollars? You see, that person would most likely sell his company and be just filthy rich. In other words, he would just want to enjoy the riches once he has accumulated them. And as such, the very idea of a billionaire doing business for money is paradoxical. Because someone just wanting to be rich will quit before he or she can become a billionaire anyway. 

But that's not the only problem that second individual will have to face. He or she most likely will fail to make even that much money. Why? Because the idea of working solely for money tends to backfire. Psychologists have identified the distraction effect whereby an individual's performance cannot be increased on a task using monetary incentives if the task requires even a slight degree of cognitive or mental effort. In fact, you cannot expect to improve performance on anything that's more complex than hitting a key on the keyboard repeatedly, using monetary incentives. Additionally, money or fame alone may fail to remain the thing that wants you to get up in the morning every single day. If you have to do something over a sustained period of time, you better do it because you are passionate about it or love doing it. Money instead can endanger your love for doing something unless you are really good at it- which requires natural talent like that of an athlete, actor or singer.

What's more that nobody cares how much money you want to make, or even how hard you work. One wants to know if your work has any value to offer to them. In fact, the simplest yet the most accurate premise I can give you on money is this: "The more value you offer to more people, the richer you will be." That's the reason why Bill Gates is rich whereas the cashier at your neighboring store isn't. It has to do with the scale and magnitude of the value you offer, the impact you create. Of course, you have to be able to capture a portion of the value you offer, or otherwise there are people who have done great things and offered great value but didn't become billionaires, or even millionaires. But then, they didn't do it for money anyway. 

Or otherwise if you don't want to be great but instead lead an average life with a good family, I covered the recipe for you in the first section of this course. Check out from there if that's what you want, although I am personally against it because that's a very limited way of living.

As for what we discussed in this lesson, making money must not be the primary concern for you for as long as are working on a mission or you believe otherwise that what you are working on is truly important, meaningful or just worth doing. Granted that you are thinking big, you don't want to worry about how you may fail to feed yourself someday. Or do you? Wouldn't it be funny if Gates or Einstein or Gandhi worried about being unable to feed themselves some day?

Each approach I covered is respectable in its own right. There must be many more possible approaches, and the world needs a great variety of people. But above all, the world needs people who have come alive, whatever their contributions. Because that's the route to human flourishing and a happiest global civilization. 

It all depends upon you. It's up to you to choose. And because in the end, only you know what's best for you.