Everyone conscious enough to improve their lives understands the importance of Self-development. For me, I see it as a process of becoming better versions of ourselves. There are so many aspects of our lives that subconsciously get better with the right kind of experience, one of them is the art of spending money.
For example, being tasked with the responsibility of spending money subconsciously creates a learning curve, unless we decide to be unintentional about this learning and completely miss the prospect of becoming better. This means that when we're conscious enough, we can understand the concept of winning or losing, the consequences or rewards that come with them, and how this applies to the process of growth in our lives.
Money is inevitable
.......and this is because irrespective of how we try to run away from being tasked with spending, we eventually have to be in the situation to choose commodity A and reject commodity B. This is because money can also be about consequences and rewards. When we do it wrongly, there are consequences and when we do it rightly, then there's a reward.
However irrespective of our previous experiences, degrees, ideologies, or theories, we can still fail when it comes to money and this is because learning about money creates the need for more knowledge, the volatility of knowledge when it comes to mastering money is why we will continue to be on a lifelong journey because there's no destination.
However, do not mistake being wealthy for the mastery of money.
There's a massive difference
People can be wealthy and still be completely clueless about making the right money decisions. This is because the sophistication of the 21st century creates better opportunities for almost anyone to become wealthy without having to build it. However this isn't to say, one can be wealthy while learning "how to be wealthy".
I've seen people who became wealthy by lottery or inheritance because they haven't previously had to build wealth, they'll need to actually learn how to handle their wealth, proving once again that we cannot bypass the fundamentals because it carries consequences. However, some people do so and this is because the world is more flexible regarding owning and spending money.
Accessibility To Knowledge Gets Better
The onus of money has become better with sophistication, which means it's easier to learn, and knowledge isn't restricted to anyone. Nevertheless, this isn't to undermine the process or work that's needed in building wealth. I have never owned wealth nor built any, but we can all agree that sometimes there are situations where people don't even need to build wealth to own it.
One can be extremely lucky and own a conglomerate of businesses even when they didn't set out in life to have this. This is why I feel that people should handle resources based on some specific qualities, otherwise, it might ruin them.
So people like this might have the theoretical knowledge to run a business via the degrees they've accumulated, but along the line, they find out that attaining theoretical mastery is a destination, while attaining practical mastery when it comes to money is an endless marathon, that might take one a lifelong.
However, being gifted wealth on a platter is a shortcut that can ruin one's learning process when it comes to money, people do not need shortcuts. However people want to master the Craft so quickly, they forget why the learning process is there in the first place.
Mastery & Shortcuts
The latter can be detrimental
Anyone who is aiming to develop and grow when it comes to mastery must understand that shortcuts might become a means to an end, but when it becomes too pivotal or instrumental in our lives, we lose valuable lessons essential to becoming better over a long time.
Aiming to become better with money is a great aspect of self-development, that's often ignored. Its Importance arises from its Inevitability, money taps into people's lives in ways they cannot even begin to fathom. We might not even finish the learning process, the curve is endless.
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