I have a growing belief that the fundamental secret to making money is going full yogi on it. Maya literally means “illusion” or “magic”. Pick your analogy. The Emperor is wearing no clothes. There is a little man behind the green curtain. Maya (Money?) is just “a magic show, an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem”. Maya (Money?) is “that which exists, but is constantly changing and thus is spiritually unreal”. It is possible to wrap too much of our identity up with how we make money. To see conspicuous accumulation as a scoreboard of a life well lived. Who we are. How impressive that is. Life as a civilising mission where you are trying to take the story of yourself from savage to sage. The Gita is a story used to help unpack the battlefield of life. How we deal with all this temporary nonsense, and the waves of unimportant noise, and protect the stuff that really matters. I think part of that lies in seeing that not all good ideas are good business ideas. That money making is focused on solving temporary supply and demand problems. That how you make money is not who you are. Detach. Separate. Build space. Create a buffer for the noise. Don’t allow the world to define and rank you by your earning ability.
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