You claim to be spending >$5.5k/mo on self-investments. What are you hoping to improve from these investments? Do you think your skills need improvement? I am highly highly skilled, but I've found the world is far more concerned about perception & position & being in the right spot at the right time. Good work, smarts, competence is not rewarded. Work attached to high profile efforts are rewarded. What kind of coaching/mentorship are you getting out of your $2k/mo? Technical or tactical/political? Have you found it helpful?

> ~$2k on mentors from big corporations, $2-3K on courses, $1k on books (some of them rare) and $500 on my diet and nutrition.

These numbers are crazy. The diet and nutrition is the only one that seems reasonable. Are you paying people $2k a month to just talk to you? What kind of courses cost $2-3k a month every month? You're not going through $1k worth of books in a month either.

I kind of doubt that you're getting a good return. Maybe as a general statement investing in yourself is sensible and of course it's your money to spend but all of this seems a bit out there.

Can you expand on what you mean by "investment is IN ourselves" ...