It is important for a person to know his wishes and make it a main goal. There are people who only know how to collect money, and if you ask them what you will do with it, they tell you : what is important is to collect money to solve life's problems.
I read about a guy named Dick Proenneke, a scientist who decided to live alone in the wilderness to realize his dream, he quit his job in the city to go to Alaska, knowing that what he is going to learn, money can't buy it.
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I wonder though, if learning is similar to money. People collect information they think is invaluable - but unless applied to improve something, it is valueless too.