To enjoy the positive effects of achievement without overcommitting to it, what other everyday conditions should we have in place, alongside an awareness of environmental factors?

The constraint of "everyday life" is very important. In reality, "financial stability," the biggest representative of realistic anxiety, has to be met at the level of personal conviction. Only when one has prepared for the crises each person naturally worries about, especially the factors that are hard to cope with when finances are shaky, can one's achievements avoid taking on the shape of a struggle for survival.

However, I think that when it comes to money, human limiting utility always changes over the course of a life, so if you keep earning only as much as you need, you will end up living a life constantly swayed by money. I think it is good to set a target amount in advance, early in your career as a young professional, by considering your own personality and lifestyle traits, something like "I think I would be happy if I earned this much," and to acquire the secure belief that you can stably exceed that target.

For example, in my case, I found a job before graduating from university and received an income above the median income of a four-person household at the time. Meanwhile, my temperament is very easygoing, so I was able to adapt well to living in a boarding room without a sink, sharing it with cockroaches, or in a gosiwon, and I came to believe that the amount I need to be happy is one-third of my current salary. With the optimistic thought, "Even if my career gets tangled up later, whether by going to graduate school or starting a business, won't I still earn at least half of the starting salary I once received?" I was able to completely free myself from financial worries.

In the end, I acknowledge that the concept of "unconditional acceptance," at least for now, is realistic only for people who are by temperament optimistic about money or have low expectations, or for people who are already financially quite stable. That is why I want to work toward securing a social safety net so that this concept can become one worth recommending to society as a whole.