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Why money and monitory profits are weak purposes for the brain?
Money by definition is a promise of certain value by an authority to you. If you look inside any currency notes, the authorized bank of that country promises you that you hold value equivalent to the denomination written on the money.
One of the most critical things to remember here is that no matter how trustworthy an authority is, money is still a promise, and a promise is still not real. Therfore when you start setting and chasing goal for the purpose of accumulating more promises, the brain starts getting more into the fantasy world.
Hence people say the more one earns the more one goes away from the ground reality.
Therefore one with more money becomes more insecured of loosing the money. On the other hand if one has achieved certain skills and knowledge, there is no fear of loosing that skill or knowledge.
But can we not buy everything we want when we have a lot of money?
The very important factor in the above statement is want, not need. Yes, when you have more money, you can buy 6 houses, if you so want. However, we don’t need that many houses. So the more you have things that you wanted but not needed, the more resource your brain has to invest in keeping them. Because you did not need a lot that you acquired, brain has to create a fantasy around why they are needed. Thus brain stays more in the fantasy.
What purpose does charity solve? Is it a higher purpose?
Charity serves the purpose of bringing the rich into reality. If you have something(like money) in excess and you give it to those who need it but can’t afford it then your brain perceives this as higher prupose and so that goal of becoming richer becomes higher purpose.
However, please note that the way without a strong or higher purpose, your goal becomes meaningless, getting things that one needs easily without grinding for it also makes those beneficiaries more greedy and lazy. As brain do not work in two different ways, their brain starts desiring more, and for free.
For instance, a charity hospital for the poors may appear a novel act, but this eliminates the need for the poor to take good care of their health and not getting ill at the first place. Your charity may become poison for someone else.
When brain perceives that your charity irrespective of the higher purpose you thought it serves is causing negative outcome to the society, the brain again starts hating you for the same. Therefore excess charity also leads one to spend more time in the fantasy world.
The best way a charity can be invested is to create opportunities for people and for the future; for instance a science and research center, a market where poor farmers can get better price for their products, a park where people can come and walk and improve their health.
Difference between Milestone and Target
A milestone is point where you want to reach, or an object that you want to have. A target is when you pay your entire attention and focus towards the milestone and attach your emotions and allocate your time for achieving the milestone.
As we already know that your brain doesn’t care about the milestone if there is no goals attached to it, a target can be defined as a focussed attention, energy, emotion, and time allocated to achieve a goal. It is simply the direction towards which you are about to move your life to achieve the target.
One of the best parallels to the target is the archery, where an archer aims at the score circle, channelizes all his energy, focus on the aim, gathers all the emotions and sets the arrow free from the bow towards the target.
When you have a goal, you can never achieve it, without setting your life’s target to achieve it. You have to see your life as the arrow, and point it at the goal, channelize your energy, and release your life towards the goal.
Summery
Let us summerize the points we learned in this section:
- Becoming richer with more money doesn’t make one more successful.
- Charity is not always a higher purpose.
- Strong purpose is when you try to solve your fundamental biological needs of survive, thrive, and reproduce.
- Higher purpose is when you want to solve the fundamental purposes of many people, so that they can solve your other purposes.
- A milestone is a wish.
- A milestone with a purpose is a vision.
- A milestone with a vision, timeline, plan, rules, and processes is a goal.
- When you set a goal and start your journey towards the goal, the starting point is called an idea.
- The journey from idea to achievement is called execution.
- More money moves us away from the ground reality.
- Staying in the ground reality all the time 24×7 is suffering.
- Money is merely a promise, and not a real object.
- Monitory profit increases greed.
With the above, you can now set your goals appropriately. I leave the plan, rules, process and timeline towards the end of the article.