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Money isn't everything, according to Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson's "increasingly despondent" tweets:
Shortly after the sale of Minecraft's parent company, Mojang's co-founder Markus Persson had reportedly left the studio in order to pursue other projects. Naturally, before immediately moving on to another enterprise, the man more affectionately known in the gaming community as "Notch" has taken several beats to reap the benefits of his success, outbidding Beyoncé and Jay-Z on a $70 million home, and hosting lavish parties in his newly acquired mansion. However, he's also been afforded plenty of time to reflect on how far he's come, and not surprisingly, it's quite lonely at the top.
Recently, Notch took to his Twitter account to air his grievances with the current situation in which he finds himself. Although Persson's net worth currently rests at $1.33 billion as of writing, the famous game designer has confessed that such prosperity has essentially cursed him in the grand scheme of things, as he's "never felt more isolated". Apparently what John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote all those years ago is true, and it's that money can't buy love. Taking that into consideration, Notch's Tweets grow increasingly despondent, as seen below.
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The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Monday August 31 2015, @10:27PM
"Wallowing in self pity? "
You are being overly harsh. (its the internet so its expected though) He is having a existential crisis because there is a massive gap between how he thinks he should be now he "made it" and where he is.
This happens to people of all walks of life.
Sounds a lot like he has been on autopilot for too long and thus getting dragged along in the wake of his success and that of those around him. Too many choices overall and many of the choices being made for you or not thought about enough. Losing contact with real people and good friends to keep you stable cannot be helping either.
Strangely your suggestion seems to be a good one although only one part of a whole solution. Goal setting is very important but you first have to work out how to work out the best goals - it's harder than you think.
For example finding and working on yourself and becoming the person you want to be also: if you have not achieved this then how the hell are you suppose to work out what you want and thus what goal you should set!?
For example, his girl left him because of fear of him and his lifestyle....no, that would just be fear of him. His lifestyle is actually something HE chose.
Meh. Most people on the web will just consider this touchy feely nonsense in their scramble to appear the most machoist man they can be.
Those people are knuckle-dragging morons. :)