There are some basic needs that all humans have such as: food, water, a reasonable ambient temperature, and many more. This we know. Another thing we know is that for each of these human needs there is something like an optimal value.
Why? Because at the two extremes are life-threatening conditions of either deprivation or toxicity. This has nothing to do with following some sort of morally correct middle way. It’s built into our physical bodies. But let’s move from body to mind, and ask about more and less in the mental context.
Money of course is really interesting in this regard as some people place no limits on how much they wish to accumulate. What has this got to do with retirement? Well consider some other mental activities such as:
· Binge-watching shows on Netflix;
· Accumulating likes on Facebook;
· Daily counting of emails received.
Now we get to a tricky area of evaluation: what is too little or too much?
This is an area over which you have control in retired life: where YOU want to set the balance of YOUR activities like those listed above.
There is no correct answer, there is only an answer that works for you.
Retirement: You won’t know what it is like until you get there.