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Two people discuss why chasing wealth feels pointless if money doesn't make you happy. Most of us unconsciously believe rich equals happy, creating a conflict that blocks real growth. You can't fix it until you notice the contradiction.
Two people discuss why chasing wealth feels pointless if money doesn't make you happy. Most of us unconsciously believe rich equals happy, creating a conflict that blocks real growth. You can't fix it until you notice the contradiction.
money doesn't make you happy.
People say that, you read it. Over time you start fucking believing that money will make you happy.
So why even try, right, to become rich or make money if it doesn't make you happy? Yeah. If that is correlated, like you said, with the belief— yeah, I want to be rich, but also I want to become this person— then this belief wouldn't allow you to become—
yeah. And in reality, like, most of the time we're not even aware of what our beliefs are unless we try to identify them. So like, if you had sat down and said, all right, I want to be rich, but I believe rich people are this, that, and whatever, you would realize there's a conflict and maybe you would look into it. But if you don't actually try to take a moment to say, what are my beliefs about life and what do I want to be and do they conflict with each other? You would never know that that internal conflict exists, especially in today's day and age where the moment you might start thinking about it, your brain's like, nah, let's just go scroll on Instagram instead.
Right?
Right. You don't even go down that path at all. Doing that deep personal work and understanding yourself, I think, is the key to unlock next levels of success in any area of life.
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