Identity part 2

In Naval Ravikant’s viral 2018 ‘tweet storm’, his second pearl of wisdom was:

“Understand that ethical wealth creation impossible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you”.

This was another connect the dots moment for me..

I had this subconscious belief that wealthy people are greedy, evil and would steal from their own mothers.

It meant that I (secretly and perhaps unconsciously)despised wealth.

When I read this, I was already working with incredibly wealthy individuals and families.

I also knew other very wealthy and successful people.

Most were/are incredibly kind, generous, humble, salt of the earth humans.

I had all this evidence to the contrary, but my sub conscious mind held onto this belief.

Why?

I don’t know.

I have no doubt it was some form of conditioning from when I was younger.

To me, where it came from wasn’t overly important.

The fact was, it was a belief I held.

More important to me was how this had influenced myrelationship and decisions with money.

Wealth was eluding me because otherwise it meant thatI was a greedy evil person.

I was lucky Naval gave me the answer to thequestion I didn’t know to ask myself.

My daughter is obsessed with Minions (or “onions” asshe affectionately calls them).

I spoke about conditioning when we are youngeraffecting our beliefs.

In Despicable Me, Mr Perkins is the banker atthe Bank of Evil.

See what I mean?

I hope this doesn’t influence my daughter tosecretly despise wealth.

Because wealth can be a force for good

I hope she has a lot of good to give the world.

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