relationship with money
on the ways in which we relate to money, and how it affects our relationship to ourselves and others
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relationship with money
a thread on becoming "money positive", or: going from art school dropout to software middle management and dabbling the stock market 🧵
growing up, I had an inexplicable, implicit distrust of money. I legitimately believed in the saying "money is the root of all evil"
ꙮ sadalsvvd.space ꙮx.com"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
David Perell • Tweet
this is the fundamental dynamic that non-coercive marketing is seeking to undermine.
what i had to do was a combination of exposure therapy (spending a bit more than felt comfortable) + emotional work:
i’d notice my tendency to choose discomfort over spending money → spend → freak out → explore / be with the feeling
also, active gratitude whenever i spent
nibras ê©œx.comthread
In the same way diet culture is quick to blame health conditions on a person’s weight, or prescribe food restriction as treatment toward the goal of being thin, budget culture sees measures like credit scores and debt as signifiers of financial health, and prescribes spending restrictions as the first step toward wellness — defined, at its core, as... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money
Once again, I am coming back to the mutual relationship between words and thought. In order to create the possibility of relationships and systems based on human needs, a consciousness shift may be absolutely necessary, and changing our language may just be the path, even if I don’t quite yet see exactly how it could go there. As we learn to speak... See more
Miki Kashtan • Does Anyone Deserve Anything?
The first step to resolving your money issues is being able to see the unconscious limiting beliefs you have around it.
A few of the most common ones I see:
- Money is bad or dirty.
- Money is scarce.
- I should feel guilty about having money.... See more
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