That!
I’m in no way comparing my education nor my career potential with this particular person.
But, I certainly did well enough while very young, my first job made more than my Dad’s. Bought a two-bedroom condo 2 years later to manage taxes, travelled worldwide, rose through the ranks.
At some point, the “correct” move would have been to keep following the head-hunters, switch jobs, each time grabbing an even better title, and of course demanding a healthy pay increase.
But instead - at some point, I was “content” with my life, “big enough” house, “new enough” cars, living in suburbia, not traveling, but had the real “luxury” of eating dinner with my family every day, doing nightly story time and weekend excursions, be at the school bus twice a day, and later play shuttle service to all the school events and sports mid-day.
None of the above would have been possible, if I had decided to commit myself to a more and more demanding career that certainly was open to me.
Wouldn’t change a thing!
I know a lot of people “succeeding”, if finances/titles/recognitions were the measure - but completely failing in life.