Anyway, I agree. I lived my whole life hating money due to 2007 and my family’s collapse, and it being entirely because we were reliant on decadence.
All it did was limit my influence liquidity, so to speak. And my comfort. I can’t even focus on writing an opinion piece or writing a meta-analysis without being concerned over food, sleep, tomorrow, or my family. It’s hugely distracting.
A few months ago I decided to change that around. Now I’ve started to be profitable off of my learning, and it feels incredible. Not because I think I’ll be rich. But because I can finally really help my family and help my Mum stop having to overwork while being underpaid with arthritis. I just want to, after so many years of being “exceptional but stupid”, to make the correct choices. I think all this time suffering has done us a lot of good, though. Can you imagine where we would be without the perspective of this thinking?
The folks who started investing early are the same ones we will have to directly criticize in activism, after all.
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Anyway, I agree. I lived my whole life hating money due to 2007 and my family’s collapse, and it being entirely because we were reliant on decadence.
All it did was limit my influence liquidity, so to speak. And my comfort. I can’t even focus on writing an opinion piece or writing a meta-analysis without being concerned over food, sleep, tomorrow, or my family. It’s hugely distracting.
A few months ago I decided to change that around. Now I’ve started to be profitable off of my learning, and it feels incredible. Not because I think I’ll be rich. But because I can finally really help my family and help my Mum stop having to overwork while being underpaid with arthritis. I just want to, after so many years of being “exceptional but stupid”, to make the correct choices. I think all this time suffering has done us a lot of good, though. Can you imagine where we would be without the perspective of this thinking?
The folks who started investing early are the same ones we will have to directly criticize in activism, after all.