How to Leave the Rat Race and Earn More: The Psychology of Money

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekMoney, anxiety, and financial thinkingKarma, free will, and causalityFocusing on income growthAnxiety, stress, and inner calmKarma

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Teaser
• 00:50An exercise about money
• 01:28What this episode covers: money, fear, and perception
• 02:04What influences whether money is present and comes into a person's life?
• 5:121. Karmic reasons for large amounts of money
• 8:39How space influences money
• 10:302. Money from work as a source of stability
• 14:00Why work provides money throughout life
• 14:42Fears about money: what to do
• 16:59The most important thing to understand about money
• 18:303. The influence of country and region on money
• 20:46How to grow your earnings and money: an exercise
• 23:56How to remove distress about money: an exercise

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• 01:50

  On the other hand, I do everything I can to provide material and teach so that everyone can live at their maximum level, avoid missing opportunities, and not feel bad when something does not work out.

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• 04:44

  At moments like that, I always remember my business partner Andrey Rogachev, who created Pyaterochka. He used to say, "Conversion is 97 percent."

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• 05:03

  To show that there are different reasons for a person having or not having money, and that the more broadly we study these people in terms of different causes, the more we will see the probability decrease.

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• 05:48

  One of the biggest mistakes about the karmic cause of a person's wealth—one of the biggest mistakes—is when someone suddenly earns a great deal of money, associates that with their good karma, and says, "Look how good I am. I have earned so much money."

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• 06:45

  Where is the error in thinking when someone says, "I do good deeds, and I have money"?

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• 08:40

  There is a big difference between living in Minsk, Moscow, New York, Smolensk, or Borisov.

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• 15:22

  You need to remember and be very careful: if there are any patterns of disorientation around money, fear about money, greed, a desire for power through money, or manipulation around money, always remember that this…

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• 18:14

  So here is a very important point. Very important: understand that karma and work do not necessarily bring money.

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• 20:20

  Even when you start talking about karmic management, in a certain area it is not a bad way of thinking: "If I do good things, I..." As I said, I am aiming for the maximum in a good sense.

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• 22:41

  So what do we, as people, communicate about money to others? How do we support them? What do we pay attention to?

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