I think it is a very good piece and your intention comes across loud and clear. Two thoughts:
1. Money is energy and how much of it we can use and process depends entirely on how expansive or constrained our wordview is. Our education system teaches us to think only inside a very tighy defined box and that the world outside it is terrifying (and the answers are in the back). Your $50 can only ever be evaluated in terms of the total energy required to achieve the intentional potential of the user. For some it is everything, for others an irrelevance.
2. Please read Lewis Schiff’s Business Brilliant for the best understanding of how middle class psychology stands squarely in the way of a prosperity mindset. It is probably the best work on the subject. If you enjoy it and want to know more I can introduce you to Lewis next time I am in NY (if that is where you still reside). Good piece though.
First off thanks for the comment. I love to get feedback (positive or negative) on my work. I try to objectively analyze everything I write and determine its worth, but obviously it's always invaluable to get an outside perspective.
I fully agree that our education system teaches us a constrained view. 97% of everything valuable I've learned in my life has come from being an autodidact (and lived experience of a unique lifestyle).
I will read that book, it looks good. I'll post a review within the next 2 months. I have a few other books in the queue I must finish first. While I'm indebted for your offer of an introduction, currently I live in Asia. My godmother lives in Brooklyn and I visit NYC once a year, but the odds of us being in that city at the same time are probably low. If it ever does happen though, I would just assume get a beer with you as meet up with Lewis.
I think it is a very good piece and your intention comes across loud and clear. Two thoughts:
1. Money is energy and how much of it we can use and process depends entirely on how expansive or constrained our wordview is. Our education system teaches us to think only inside a very tighy defined box and that the world outside it is terrifying (and the answers are in the back). Your $50 can only ever be evaluated in terms of the total energy required to achieve the intentional potential of the user. For some it is everything, for others an irrelevance.
2. Please read Lewis Schiff’s Business Brilliant for the best understanding of how middle class psychology stands squarely in the way of a prosperity mindset. It is probably the best work on the subject. If you enjoy it and want to know more I can introduce you to Lewis next time I am in NY (if that is where you still reside). Good piece though.
Hey Steve,
First off thanks for the comment. I love to get feedback (positive or negative) on my work. I try to objectively analyze everything I write and determine its worth, but obviously it's always invaluable to get an outside perspective.
I fully agree that our education system teaches us a constrained view. 97% of everything valuable I've learned in my life has come from being an autodidact (and lived experience of a unique lifestyle).
I will read that book, it looks good. I'll post a review within the next 2 months. I have a few other books in the queue I must finish first. While I'm indebted for your offer of an introduction, currently I live in Asia. My godmother lives in Brooklyn and I visit NYC once a year, but the odds of us being in that city at the same time are probably low. If it ever does happen though, I would just assume get a beer with you as meet up with Lewis.
In any case, thank you for the kind words.