“tat param purusakhyater guna vaitrsnyam” Yoga Sutras
“The highest awareness of non-attachment
stems from awareness of purusha (the Self)”
You are not your job. There are
three elements to making money. A problem to solve, Capital to finance its
solving, and a Container to solve it in. You are not the problem, the capital, or
the container. They are all tools. “What are you going to be when you grow up?”
is completely the wrong question. Money making, and waves of money anxiety, are
not about who you are. It’s not about you. The problem with performance
reviews, job titles, promotions, bonuses, hierarchy, measures of success, apportionment
of respect, and illusions of meritocracy is we associate temporary problems and
conspicuous signals with identity. We weigh and measure each other. This leads
to impostor syndrome and voices in our heads constantly telling us we are not
good enough. A firm grip on a more permanent sense of self lets you hold space between
waves of money anxiety and your sense of what really matters.
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