Area of life · 02
Money, worth and what you believe you deserve
3 cards in this area, and the writing filed under them.
The rules
What you may have learned
No. 19 · Money, ambition and what you believe you deserveThe MerchantYou may have learned that money is vulgar to discuss directly, that wanting more than you have is greedy, and that the safest way to hold either is to pretend indifference, whether you have plenty or barely enough.→No. 25 · EnoughnessThe ChildYou may have learned you'll be enough once you've achieved enough, earned enough, saved enough, and that there's always another threshold, financial or otherwise, just ahead of where you actually are.→No. 42 · Worth and identity beyond what you doThe EssenceYou may have learned that you are the roles you hold, parent, partner, provider, professional, and that what you're worth gets measured by what you got done. It might arrive in a gap between roles, a train journey, a waiting room, a day you do nothing of note, when you catch yourself, for a moment, not needing to justify it. You are not the sum of today's output, or of anyone's need for you. Underneath all of it is a person who existed before any of it and will still be there if all of it changed tomorrow.→
Writing
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Reflection14 Oct 2025Inherited money storiesThe beliefs about money and safety we carry didn't come from nowhere. They often come from survival.→Field note22 Sep 2026Where you end and your role beginsThe system didn’t create the self-sacrifice schema; it found it, and it runs it.→Reflection25 Nov 2025What is the economy for?For decades we’ve been told growth is the goal. The better question is growth of what, and for whom, and what the whole thing was meant to serve in the first place.→
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