Yeah, the notion of a 5 year moonshot is more in alignment with the type of Renaissance Soul known as the Serial Master. For the type of Renaissance Soul who is more like a Plate Spinner or a Sybil or a Generalist's Generalist, the availability of Moon Shot option is of little value, because "Why in the heck would I want to devote myself to just one thing for 5 years straight?!?!" Some of us only (if ever) achieve mastery at anything by looping back around to recurring interests throughout our life and/or accumulating the hours relatively slowly in several realms at the same time. So, finding one realm of current interest that also makes money as part-time endeavor is not such a big deal.theanimal wrote:I suppose it comes down to temperament
Also, hustling for money is kind of like dating, even if you are happily married, if you lose your dating skills, you will eventually tank your marriage. Just like how any purely passive investment plan will eventually tank (but you might be dead first.) Of course, being an active investor is a type of hustle, but it also requires some number of average hours per week, so it's really no different than hustling at any other form of self-employment for money, except for the fact that it is at the far end of the spectrum of Size of Initial Capital Investment in Business, so more likely to succeed with conservative management.
OTOH, it has been my experience that when my need to make money rises to above having to work for money more than a flexible approximately 16 hours/week, it will interfere with my preferred lifestyle of many simultaneous bouncing rubber ball type shots. Due to my current inability to come up with creative frugal solutions to the lifestyle constraints imposed by my chronic disease, that is my problem, But, maybe,just maybe, even this constraint will eventually force some creative solution *
*Optimism is to a large extent its own reward