Why You Are Not Earning, Even Though You Can

Main subjects

AMAlexander MineevAVAlexander VolchekMoney, anxiety, and financial thinkingDecisions, action, and self-sabotageTruthChildren, parenting, and family life

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Introduction
• 00:36Creating stability in life as a foundation for growth
• 03:14Fear of taking any job and undervaluing yourself
• 06:07Being at peace with any scenario: a café or sales job as a possibility
• 08:20Fear of losing face and dependence on other people's opinions
• 10:02Self-sabotage: where does it come from, and what can you do about it?
• 14:30People choose suffering and pride over money
• 15:20The illusion of awareness
• 17:14What lies behind our action and inaction?
• 20:34Wanting things for yourself versus understanding reality
• 21:21Honesty with yourself instead of pretty words
• 24:00What can you do to earn more and deal with self-sabotage?

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 00:45

  This year, while filming weddings, I felt what stability is: knowing I would have a certain number of weddings, a certain amount of money, that I could pay for housing, and so on.

  Alexander Mineevdefinition

• 03:49

  Some people will be surprised, but when you are raising your children, as a doctor I know once said, if you have a Filipino nanny in Moscow, your children will speak not English but Filipino English, and their education will be within the bounds of that person's education.

  Alexander Volchekprinciple

• 04:43

  Someone asked them, "Why are you hiring someone for a million dollars when the market salary for the same position is a hundred and fifty thousand or two hundred thousand dollars a year?" They said, "We want this person to earn as much as our guests.

  Alexander Volchekcomparison

• 10:05

  Self-sabotage, for example? By the way, that is a subject we seem hardly to have touched on.

  Alexander Mineev

• 11:19

  Look, it is an ego-driven justification: "I actually have exceptional knowledge, an exceptional profession, or skills, but I am not earning money because I am beating myself up."

  Alexander Volchekcausedefinition

• 12:28

  A job as an employee, with a precise schedule every day, doesn't let you do that.

  Alexander Volchek

• 20:38

  Not living for the law of the universe, not living because it is natural and true, but wanting things for themselves, always for themselves.

  Alexander Volchek

• 24:15

  They didn't invent this a hundred years ago, but we've invented it now because we are the smartest people.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 24:27

  Then they go on a retreat, take some substance, and say, "People used it two thousand years ago, so it is an ancient substance that leads to something."

  Alexander Volchekcausecomparison

• 25:01

  You perceive reality with a closed mind, want to act only for yourself, and get problems, an enormous number of problems with no apparent basis. Then you live without understanding why you feel a particular way, why you are in a particular state, why you grieve when this person dies, but…

  Alexander Volchek