Money is the megaphone of identity

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  • Survival
    • The anxiety of finding a job, the fear of losing a job
    • Four Levels
      • Some Savings
      • Basic Necessities
      • Homelessness
      • Starvation
  • Freedom
    • Rather than using money as the ticket out of an unfulfilling career, use it as the ticket in to a fulfilling one.
    • Diligence
    • Patience
    • Rationality
    • Three Levels
      • Freedom-in-Attention The less you have to think about money, the more free you actually are
      • Freedom-in-Work
      • Freedom-as-Leisure
  • Power
    • Definition
      • The ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality
      • The capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events
    • The way you exercise power over yourself will set the conditions for how you exercise power over others
      • If you want to express your individual power by buying yachts, wearing gold chains, and balling out at night clubs, then that does two things. First, it signals to others that these are the things that matter to you, and they will tie your human worth to your material worth. Second, you will view others through this same lens, and you will see materiality as the answer to solving their problems in turn.
    • Four Levels How to use Money for x?
      • People you don’t know
      • Community
      • Family
      • Self

[!tip] If you view the world through the lens of scarcity and survival, money will only amplify that feeling of inadequacy. But if freedom is what defines you, then money will feel abundant, no matter how much you have. If power and influence is what you want, then money will drive the nature of your relationships in that direction.

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