I doubt it. I’m having a hard time finding it, but there was a study that suggested that wealthy people kind of stopped developing mentally at whatever time they became wealthy. I think this study was focused more on children and adolescents, but I can see it applying to adults somewhat. If you think about it, wealthy people become disconnected from the rest of society and rarely suffer the consequences of their actions. I mean, maybe if he lost his fortune and was left destitute…
This is a thing in psychology. Overcoming challenges is what forces us to grow, so when you break that “game” by having so much money that you never have to be challenged again, it makes sense that you would stop developing.
You see the same sort of thing with alcohol/drug addiction - when a person finds a chemical “easy-button” for dopamine, they tend to mentally get stuck around the age that they started using.
I doubt it. I’m having a hard time finding it, but there was a study that suggested that wealthy people kind of stopped developing mentally at whatever time they became wealthy. I think this study was focused more on children and adolescents, but I can see it applying to adults somewhat. If you think about it, wealthy people become disconnected from the rest of society and rarely suffer the consequences of their actions. I mean, maybe if he lost his fortune and was left destitute…
This is a thing in psychology. Overcoming challenges is what forces us to grow, so when you break that “game” by having so much money that you never have to be challenged again, it makes sense that you would stop developing.
You see the same sort of thing with alcohol/drug addiction - when a person finds a chemical “easy-button” for dopamine, they tend to mentally get stuck around the age that they started using.