This is the key:
Exactly! If you want to get away from the crowd, you have to do stuff the crowd isn't doing.
Earl Nightingale said it way back in The Strangest Secret. If you lack a role model for whatever you want to achieve, just look what everyone else is doing and do the opposite.
The vast majority do things that take short term pleasure over long term success in whatever field you want to look at. Becoming an actualized human being and creating meaning in life involves picking a distant goal and striving towards it!
edit: BTW I love that you are booking depreciation. You're one in a million!
I will be a millionaire. Just give me time. :)