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We all have a pain/pleasure system that is important to our survival. If we feel pain in something we’re doing, we stop; if we get pleasure in what we’re doing we continue, sometimes to excess.

A clear example of this is in learning to ride a bike.

When you were learning to ride your first bicycle, you no doubt fell off a few times. But you quickly learnt that turning the handle bar caused you to fall off which caused pain. The pain taught you the importance of correcting the action of turning the handle bar which caused you to fall of your bike in the first place. Falling off your bike meant pain.

Once you managed to keep the handle bar steady, you began to effortlessly glide along. Ecstatic euphoria was the result. You felt pleasure.

In the end as you became more proficient at riding, you remembered all the actions that led to falling off – pain – and didn’t do them. You remembered all the actions that lead to pleasure and kept doing them.

Now with money, you will find that over time, you pick up sayings, experiences and advice about making money from people who are not financially well off, that link pain to having more money and pleasure to having less money.

When you have money, you just think of all the pleasure you will get, all the things you can buy, do and have. And you remember the lean times when money was not so plentiful. So, you spend it.

Later on in life when you try to make more money, you start to fall into the emotional trap that produces the pain of having more money. You get the feeling that no one will really like you for your new found wealth. And you will have to work much harder and you might lose it all. It’s not really worth the effort.

So, you stay within the limits of the pain/pleasure means for money. You’re constantly torn between the emotional pain of not wanting to make more money and the pleasure of wanting to spend more. Both these viewpoints are pulling you in opposite directions which keep you actually doing anything.

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