Compensation

A friend here wrote to tell me that I am a good example of compensation in psychology. I found out that it is a kind of defense mechanism in which people overachieve in one area to compensate for failures in another. For example, individuals with poor family lives may direct their energy into excelling above and beyond what is required at work. It is true that I compensate myself within life. I try to earn a lot of money and live in luxury. I want to reward myself because nobody in the past rewarded me (in my life). Actually, life doesn't reward you, you are the one who would should take the reward from life.