There's the inner stance of the 'expert' and the inner stance of the 'student'. The first is expensive: you spend your life explaining yourself. The second gets results.
The main quality for changing our life is openness.
Today we’ll look at that quality through the lens of money, but the approach works just as well in every other area of life.
Some people are closed to anything new — they hold the inner stance of the “expert”. Others hold the inner stance of the “student”: they’re open to new things and ready to listen and learn.
The “expert” stance is expensive. Once a person considers themselves SOMEBODY, a crown can quietly grow on their head. Some partly suspect that their ego has wrapped itself around their mind and that pride is already clouding their eyes, but most don’t feel it at all.
When we cling rigidly to certain beliefs and aren’t willing to really hear other points of view, our life will keep getting harder.
Take someone with money problems, for example. If they’re in the “expert” stance, they’ll tell you about the war, the weak economy, stupid clients, a greedy employer, or irresponsible staff. Pride and closedness simply don’t let them look at the situation any other way.
Even if this “expert” has a pile of debt and constant financial stress, they’ll still think they’re doing everything right — if only it weren’t for those people…
But when a person is in the “student” stance and has money problems, they’ll be ready to look for a solution. They’ll often say “I don’t know”, “I’m not competent in this”, “I haven’t tried that yet”, “What would you do in my place?”
Their openness leads them to ask other people for advice, to study all kinds of sources online, and within 10–15 hours of that research they’ll understand that a budget is a great thing, that their income depends entirely on them and their own effort, and that what matters isn’t only how much you earn but also how much you spend and on what.
The student will study the subject quickly, make new decisions, and their financial situation will start to improve.
I watch closed people and open people all the time. The life of an “expert” is very hard: you constantly have to explain and justify why you have no results, and shift responsibility onto someone else. That’s humiliating and exhausting.
The life of a “student” is far simpler, because they don’t let a crown grow on their head, and getting the results they need matters more to them than being right. They calmly set the ego aside and learn, instead of handing out ready answers and excuses.
So the conclusion is fairly simple: the more open our picture of the world and the less we cling to false beliefs, the better and more harmonious our life becomes.
And if our life is hard, maybe we’re making the same mistakes in circles and staying closed to a different approach.
Do you see closed people around you who keep fighting the same circumstances over and over?
It is rarely a lack of knowledge
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