In some sense, enjoying life is hard when you have lots of money. It gives you lots of options, and you cannot do all you would ever want to do.

Say, you are a programmer, and you are enjoying your work. Would you enjoy yourself more riding a Ferrari today? Sitting on some Caribbean beach? Following your favourite NBA team by going to all their games? Study medicine? Start a charity? How do you know you would stay happy doing that? Would you feel guilty spending your life lying on a beach, where you might have written some useful software instead?

Most people would shrug of those ideas or not even think about them because "that's life". If you have a hundred million in the bank, though, all of these are realistic options.

If money is no objection, some feel that they really are themselves to blame if they aren't happy for a minute or don't accomplish anything they feel valuable in the rest of their lives.

>If you made that kind of money, why would you even bother to do anything but just retire and enjoy life?

>“When you have the kind of success Minecraft has brought, you can just choose yourself the way you want to do things,” said Persson. “I don’t want to feel like I’m in charge or anything... I try to have a studio where people go to make games for the fun of it, not just because some investor has said we have to make money.”

He pretty much is retired. Making the games he wants to with other people is how he enjoys life. Profit is not at the top of the list.

Sounds awesome to me!

I'm not saying it doesn't ever happen, but often the people who have this kind of success don't get there by aiming for retirement.

In his case retire and enjoy life might be the exact same as what he's doing now. Programming minecraft :D

I guess he enjoys programming and making games.

Boredom?