That's not "one better". That's hardly different from telling me, "Find out what you want, and pursue that." Duh? I'm perfectly capable of doing the excercise you outlined, I've done it regularly, and I'm still not living off interest.

I'm sure you made the leap one time yourself; but you did it with a lot more insight and resources than you provided in your answer to brazil84.

How about this:

1) Earn $1 million as quickly as you can.
2) Live off the interest.

Anyone feel like they learned something there?