Hey Dan here and I read a comment yesterday that I wanted to make a whole
video responding to and - no, it's not the one about how I look like Ryan Gosling,
although thank you, you must be blind but thank you! Comment said: I feel bad about
making money without contributing. Is there something wrong with this and the
answer is: absolutely not. So there are a few things that can be
wrong with how we feel about money: one, if you just feel bad getting money like
you don't deserve it you chronically under charge you give
away your services that's bad if you think money is bad from some capitalist
diamond sent down from or up from hell to ruin the world that is bad but money
ultimately most of the time there are of course exceptions and scams and this and
that but most of the time money is a reflection of the value that we
contribute to the world so if tied with that to you is you feel bad getting
money without contributing something awesome that's great I'm the same way
here's what you do find a way to contribute tons of value in a positive
way right find a way to give value make the world a better place feel good about
it and then make a buttload of money as
well and guess what you might actually enjoy making that money and at first you
might feel a little bit guilty like but I I don't know I'm making so much money
awesome because the more money you make it means you're contributing more and
you're doing better for the world it is a very win-win situation now there's
lots of different ways we can give value to earn money I've done other videos on
this I might link up to my one of my main videos on how to start working for
yourself I talked a lot about this value so I'll include a link to that
essentially though whether or not we give value is a little bit up to us but
it's really up to the world to decide there are many ways people get value for
instance you could argue that if you have a like two hundred dollar watch and
you convince everyone it's worth ten thousand dollars and then sell it at ten
thousand dollars for the kind of people who might want to buy that watch where
it's just a status symbol they don't really
care about the mechanics or you know being on time to the millisecond they
really just want to show people how fancy their watches that you're giving
them the value by charging more that actually if you charge less they
wouldn't get as much value because they don't have this status symbol and blah
blah blah so there are many ways you can give value that sometimes we don't
necessarily perceive and again check out the other video and that gets in a
little more detail the thing is for you and for me I'm the same way is you want
to give value but also in a way where you can honestly say it's making the
world a better place right I can charge this guy ten thousand dollars for a
watch to fulfill this ego and maybe if I take that money and build some orphanage
I'm making the world a better place but really you're just feeding a what I
think is often a negative part of society that's very ego status driven
way of being so someone who's a straight capitalist could argue with you for days
about how it doesn't matter how you give value if people perceive the value and
get value then who cares for me that's always been hard because I don't know
maybe I'm a little more caring than that maybe I'm a little more intelligent
maybe I'm a little stupid or whatever it is I can't get that out of my head about
actually thinking of the greater good and my own values and morality around
the world and then how my work sort of plays into that so if that is you then
just think that through find a way that gives value maybe one of the things you
can do is make a list somewhere of your values what's important to you what you
think makes the world better or contribute and then make another list of
ways you can give value so things like your skill sets your talent your
experience and then you can put these together and look for ways where you can
give value and contribute at the same time and that can be a starting place to
find something the cool thing is once you get that alignment like I said a
beginning if you're doing something that really sucks you up because you're
contributing and making the world better or whatever that is for you right that's
a very blanket statement making the world better we could argue that
destroying the world would make it better because there'd be no more people
destroying the world another conversation but once you have that
thing that you feel is contributing and you're making money from it your
motivation is just going to snowball because you're being positively
reinforced for everything you do right it's like you take action you contribute
you get more money you feel like you're contributing you're gonna just go and go
and go and have this awesome Drive so absolutely nothing wrong with feeling
bad about making money without contributing I wish more people felt
that way and would look for ways to contribute positively and in doing so I
think that's really where money is made first off where people do often build a
lot of wealth and also where the world does become a better place because
ultimately if you find a way to contribute tons of value to the world
you're going to get paid for it that's just how things work out thank you for
watching this if you are interested in working for yourself or diving deeper
into this concept of value I will include some more videos at the end here
to check out and do subscribe to the channel I publish new videos at least
once every week on topics just like this thanks for watching catch you in the
next video soon
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