Choosing your path consciously requires regular self-reflection. In Yoga, there is a practice called Neti Neti which means “Not this, Not that”. It is an analytical meditation on what you are not. It allows you to create some space between what you are, and the tools you use. In the world of money, we use price as a tool. Price is not value. You need to determine what your values are, and what you value. You can use price as a communication tool, but it does not have permanence. Similarly, salary is not worth. Salary is simply the price of someone’s labour. Supply and demand determine that price. Not some intrinsic respect-commanding, life-defining, ranking of merit. Quite often when people are making good money, they think it means they are valuable. It is dangerous to base your self-worth on pay, because supply and demand get disrupted. The barriers to entry that command that price can fall. The market changes. We create through destruction. You can do something incredibly valuable, but if lots of people can do that too... the price will be low. Price is not value. Salary is not worth. You are not your job.
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