If learning and honing your power of hindsight only costs you $6k then count yourself lucky.

Lots of people spend far far more to never learn the lesson of what it is that money can do for them that does make them happy and fill a void and what they do that is just rote action that they do to do.

Spending your limited money on the things that will give you the best utility is what it's all about and no experience is a total loss unless you fail to learn.