“Money is something you trade your life energy for. You sell your time for money. It doesn’t matter that Ned over there sells his time for a hundred dollars and you sell yours for twenty dollars an hour. Ned’s money is irrelevant to you. The only real asset you have is your time.”
Money is important and how someone thinks about money should be how you communicate about money.
- Money is something you trade your life energy for.
- Money makes progress in JTBD. How to talk with your rich friends about money.
- I live in the tribe, the tribe keeps me safe. Our tribe has a leader.
- Money is part of the system. ERE and Wheaton Scales.
- Money is about doing good things with good people and not too much friction. Should you buy a ski chalet?
- Money has external roles (saving, investing, spending, etc.) and internal roles (goals, FOMO, Jones’s, Always Buy Two New Cars). The Psychology of Money.
It’s wild the resources spent on money.
Did the internet need another post about money? Yet here we are.
But maybe what we’re really talking about is spirit. It’s philosophy. It’s spiritual. What am I supposed to do? What is a life well lived? Posing the easier question shifts the topic to money.
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Mike,
Since most people have no extra money laying around and so much stuff laying around isn’t the stuff that we constantly buy what we trade our life energy for?
I know many folks like to focus on the fleeting money step, but it seems so minor compared to the magnitude and persistence of the life energy and the stuff?
I see a comic with a person (not you!) standing in a hoarder’s room full of stuff complaining about money dominating modern life.
Keep up the good work, Evan
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Thanks Evan and yes! That’s a huge point of her book. Each time I take my daughters to Target I try to look
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