Transcript excerpt of Raf Manji reflecting on his attachment style and attitudes toward money and lifestyle. He describes being emotionally detached from material possessions and wealth, viewing money as a means to an end, and contrasts his ability to live simply with others who become trapped by rising spending and status-driven consumption.
I guess my attachment style is probably slightly avoidant, so, you know, or ambivalent in some respects. I never got attached to the lifestyle or to the money. To me, it was just kind of a means to the end. And yes, I lived in a beautiful home and all the rest of it, but I can live very simply at the same. Most people can't. Most people can't turn off what they're used to because they're so invested in it. And I think they're invested in it also from a status point of view. But if you see that that's not you. It's just stuff, you know, and people sometimes lose themselves and the stuff. And I saw I was surrounded by people who could not get out of that. And I said to them, I said, the problem you've got is your opex keeps going up. So you keep all the money you're earning, you're spending and. But you're also digging yourself into a lifestyle that if you don't have, you'll find quite difficult. I never kind of had that.
