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Money Is the Megaphone of Identity
- Our stories about money are stories about ourselves
Every one of the stories you hold about money is a story about yourself. Think of them as identities, like characters you play in your life.
Show me someone who thinks money is freedom and I’ll show you someone who wants to be free. You think money is an enabler? That means you want to be enabled.
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Money can represent freedom, safety, experience, generosity, attractiveness, power, or whatever you want. But really, money is as neutral as math. Because it’s neutral, people have projected all kinds of meaning onto it. Your biggest obstacle to getting rich is the harmful meaning you’ve attached to it. Your biggest advantage can be projecting a he
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- Money isn’t a means to wealth, it’s a means to autonomy and independence
from Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money, Picking the Right Game, and the $6 Million Janitor (#576) by Tim Ferriss
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