Tell me then, in what other areas of your life have you applied the new learnings with money?
I find the human relationship with money extraordinarily interesting. My current social experiment is asking how much could I pay them to take a 3 minute cold shower every day, for a whole year. No hot water before or after. I’ve had no takers so far. Everyone wriggles out with some condition or the other. No amount of money is incentive enough. But they’d happily do it if family was in danger or they could work half time for the same pay. I find that very telling. Huda Masood +91 9886796967 On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 18:27, Christopher A Kantarjiev via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > On 1/24/24 10:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote: > > > Very interesting thought. The most thought-provoking part is "changing > > your mental model" which resonated with me, because the mental model > > which causes this to be an issue in the first place is "Am I being taken > > advantage of?" (which is completely different from "Can I afford this?" > > which requires a separate thread, I think.) > > Yes ... I grew up in a household where my father tracked every penny of > expenses and basically invented a double-entry bookkeeping system so he > could resolve his cash accounts Sunday night. I guess it was "fun" for > him, but hell for everyone else when he wandered the house saying "where > did I spent twelve cents?". > > It came both from a history of not having enough (he lived through WWII > in Germany) and a fear of being taken advantage of ... which I, somewhat > unfortunately, inherited. > > Those two things were very intertwined in my attitude towards money, and > this experience was a big step in learning to let go of them. > > > -- > Silklist mailing list > Silklist@lists.digeratus.in > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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