Wednesday, February 4, 2015

LRJ Prompt 1 Radix malorum est cupiditas, Feb. 4, 2015

To answer his questions concerning a person’s relationship with money he used information from a book, which deals with the relationship between money and life; he also uses obtained from and interview with the book's author Jacob Needleman. According to Needleman, the brilliant people allow money tear them away from anything that is not directly related with money such as, love and personal relationships. I feel that brilliant people tend to lose track of how they became brilliant. I say this because they were brilliant before their riches; the money they have now comes from their brilliance not vice versa. Everyone has certain amounts of money they need to make them happy. Some people feel like the amount of money they have is based off of what they know. These people are addicted to the false feeling of success. Also, they are not content with the hard work that had to put forth but satisfied with the amount of zeros that fulfill their material needs and not what brought them to their success in the first place. As stated before everyone has certain amounts of money they need to make them happy. To me people risk so much because a void they have cannot be filled with money. Needleman also answered Taylor’s question, “how is it so that so many extremely wealthy people seem so unhappy?” Needleman felt that those wealthy unhappy people were not honest with themselves about what money really means to them. He made a valid statement about how people need to be happy before they come in contact with their abundant supply of money. Some wealthy people are unhappy because of how they came into their riches or what they lost to obtain their riches.

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