Chapter 14: How Rich People Can Be Poor
1. A
rich people can still feel unfulfilled emotionally and spiritually and doesn’t
know what to do about that – that is a form of poverty too.
2. I
had discovered two other categories of poverty (aside from financial poverty):
emotional poverty and professional poverty.
a. Emotional
poverty: someone who is lonely, emotionally bankrupt, suffer in an abusive
relationship, unhappy and so on.
b. Professional
poverty: someone who hate his jobs or work.
3. Without
a sense of self-worth and personal satisfaction, we live in poverty, in a void
where there is little or no real happiness – regardless of how many dollars we
have in the bank. And whether this poverty is derived from a miserable
relationship or an unfulfilling job, it will not magically disappear just
because we increase the amounts in our bank accounts.
4. Must
we choose between happiness and money? On the contrary, there is no reason in
the world not to have both.
5. It
is important to realize that poverty has nothing to do with money and that
money does not produce wealth. Wealth is what a person knows, and that the more
people know, the richer they will feel.
6. However,
our educational system diminishes a person’s knowledge by punishing mistakes;
in the end this produces people who enjoy the wealth of neither knowledge nor
money.
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