Personal finance is personal because goals are personal. Two people can look at the same investment and see different things—not because one is smarter, but because they want different lives.
One person values sleep. Another values excitement. One person wants a simple path. Another wants to compete. One person wants stability. Another wants growth at any cost. If you copy someone else’s strategy without sharing their goals and temperament, you’re borrowing a suit that doesn’t fit.
This is why envy is so destructive in money: it makes you chase another person’s finish line with your own legs. It turns your life into a comparison machine. It makes you take risks that don’t even serve your real desires.
The clean move is to define what matters to you, then build around it. Not around headlines. Not around other people’s wins. Around your own version of a good life.
Once you do that, you stop needing validation from strangers—and your financial decisions become calmer almost immediately.