The most expensive lesson I ever learned cost me £50,000. As soon as I had more money than I needed, I bought a Rolex. A few years later I bought another one, and I wore it every day.
I thought it would make people think I was successful. I was never a watch enthusiast — I just thought that's what you did. You get money, you get a Rolex.
But every time I wore it, I was thinking about it. Scared of damaging it, scared of getting robbed, covering it up in certain places. It was taking up so much of my mental capacity.
About a year ago I stopped wearing it completely, and for me life is better without it. The mad thing is you buy it to impress people — but it actually took away from the thing that made me successful in the first place: my head.
Your mental capacity is the most valuable thing you've got. Don't spend it on things that are only meant to impress people.
