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How To Make Money and Be Happy About It Too
You can outgrow your scarcity mindset even if you are not too well off (yet)
Ever since I first set foot at my very first workplace my hidden agenda was to reach financial safety. Of course, I cared about learning, growing and getting better at my job. Of course, I wanted to become good and then the best — which I did. Of course, I wanted to have more responsibility, I wanted validation and even admiration, I wanted to be promoted. But deep down, it was about making enough money, so I never have to face poverty again.
I was born to an upper-middle-class family in Eastern Europe in the eighties where wealth was literally an unknown concept. Under the influence of the Soviet Union, socialism was good to us, if you worked you could make ends meet. My parents worked. Hard. They were good and disciplined. They made enough to buy the necessary. We even had a car — we had to wait years to get one, but we were lucky to be able to afford it. We weren’t wealthy but our level was upper-middle-class already.
When in 1989 the Russian finally left our country, when they took their troops from the barracks and their puppets from our government things started to change. Capitalism arrived with its promises and dreams.
