If My Wealth Goes Away: The Seneca Decode
Seneca — multimillionaire and Rome's leading Stoic — wrote the most counter-intuitive wealth sentence ever: If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself. The decode is a two-ledger system: externals Fortune can repossess vs. the internal ledger (skill, judgment, discipline) it cannot. Includes the hedonic-adaptation and loss-aversion evidence, and five wealth-basics entries that keep the books clean.