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Frugality Is Flawed

From a personal development point ofstamp can suddenly be worth a lot if it
view frugality as a lifestyle is flawed.happens to have a rare fault in the
It is not flawed in the sense that itprint. It is simply a psychological
does not work, but it is flawed becauseprinciple that people want more what is
it makes you aim your focus at the wrongrare and do not care much for what is
things.ubiquitous.
Human beings are all full of desiresAnother principle your brain works by,
that makes us want this and that; due tois that you can not decide to not think
this fact being frugal is actuallyabout a specific thing, let me show you
pretty hard for most people. The desires: do not think about a pink elephant! Do
are the remnants of strategies that havenot think about a pink elephant! See?
worked very well for human beings in theYou had to think about a pink elephant
past, so evolutionally speaking thein order for your brain to know what it
desires have been immensely importantwas you were not supposed to think
but at the same time they have alsoabout. As long as you consciously triy
played out their role. You can see thenot to think of a pink elephant the
results of this in most developedthoughts of pink elephants will haunt
countries, even though there is noyou
shortage of food people are still eatingApplying the two principles above to the
like a famine is just around the cornerconcept of frugality, it is easy to
- and scientist have actually discoveredconclude that in order to live a frugal
that if you start to eat less the bodylive you have to focus on living
responds instinctively by lowering yourfrugally (to battle your natural
metabolism and increasing the desire fordesires) and when you focus on living a
food through chemical changes in thefrugal life you must feel like there is
hypothalamus, effectively making it verya shortage in the world of all the
difficult to loose weight. And this isthings you would like to spend your
not only a principle you see regardingmoney on (because you are artificially
food, but also a general psychologicalcreating this shortage). When there is a
principle.shortage the natural way to cope is to
I am reminded of an episode of Thefocus on getting the basics working, and
Simpsons where Homer watches one of theif the shortage never ends you will
home shopping-channels on TV, one of thespend your life worrying about the small
products gets him really excited (I doand unimportant stuff like how to
not remember what it was though) anddecrease your electricity-bill.
when the speaker mentions that the stockLet me get one thing straight though, I
of the product is limited Homer gaspsam not advocating that abstinence from
"Limited!!?" and immediately gets on thesloth is flawed - decreasing your
phone to order. Homer then asks theelectricity bill is a good thing both
salesclerk whether they have any left,financially and environmentally - what I
to which he responds "yeah, we've got aam specifically saying is flawed is the
few" and the view changes so you can seelifestyle of never spending money on
that they have a whole storage facilityanything you do not need to. You should
full of them.not throw away your money, but at the
In the episode of The Simpsons it wassame time you should not make money and
clear that the "limited" supply wasabstinence from the pleasures they can
simply a marketing-trick and in fact itgive you a holy mantra.
is one of the most common tricks in thePersonal development is all about your
trade. How often have you seen thedevelopment, and even though it will be
phrase "WHILE SUPPLIES LAST "? While itdifferent for all people, it is safe to
also has a practical meaning, I suspectsay that harmony and balance should be a
it is also used so often because itguiding principle. Typically there are
makes the product seem more rare, andtwo ways of increasing your wealth, by
rare things automatically rises indecreasing your expenses (being frugal)
(perceived) value. A good example thatand increasing your income - you should
rare things automatically increases infind a balance between them but in my
value can be seen in the coin and stampopinion it should be biased towards
collecting communities - in thoseincreasing your income as that is where
communities the assumed value is athe really big improvements come from,
direct function of how rare the stamp orregarding both your finances and your
the coin is and a normally uninterestingpersonal development.



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