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The psychology of money

    The psychology of Money –Morgan Housel   How much money is enough? Well this depends on a person. Anna Hazare is happy with Rs. 5000 per month whereas our friend Adani  isn’t happy with Rs. 2 lks  per second. Happiness, as it’s said, is just results minus expectations.  Apart from our needs to meet a good life style, we need enough money to buy Freedom.   Freedom: The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, “I can do whatever I want today. People want to become wealthier to make them happier. Happiness is a complicated subject because everyone’s different. But if there’s a common numerator in happiness —a universal fuel of joy it’s that people want to control their lives. The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want, is priceless. It is the highest dividend money pays. If your job is to build cars, there is little you can do when you’re not on the assembly li...

The Biology of Belief

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  The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton   “If I could be anybody, who would I be? Since childhood we’ve spent inordinate amount of time pondering over this question. Most of us obsessed with this fantasy, wish to become anybody but self. “How can I even try to be like someone when I am already programmed with the genes inherited from my parents?”   We find never ending drawbacks in us and imagine a second chance from God to have a life with different set of qualities in us. Bruce Lipton in this book explains that it is not Genes that decide the person we are, but it is the behavior of our cells and the cells behave as per our belief . Beliefs control Biology!   In 1952 a young British physician made a mistake that was a blessing in disguise. The doctor cured a disorder of warts of a 15 years old boy using hypnosis. The boys leathery skin looked more like an elephants hide than a human’s skin. The first session of hypnosis focused on one arm. When the boy was i...