Have you ever been faced with something that’s unexpected, unwanted or uncertain? If you have did you consider it a gift?
Stacey Kramer survived a brain tumour. Although her cancer diagnosis and treatment took a huge toll on her health, wellbeing and finances, in this short video she explains how as terrifying and traumatic that that this unwanted experience was, it actually turned out to be a priceless gift. Now that’s a shift in perspective!
Buddha is known to have remarked on the enormous impact of perspective on human psychology when he said, “life is a creation of the mind.”
Similarly William Shakespeare acknowledged this way when he said “there is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
A big part of a person’s growth and development is working to understand that what we see in our lives has a lot to do with how we see it.
Perspective influences everything.
We do not see our lives in purely objective terms. We are subjective creatures. We see through a filter. We have biases. Everyone has their personality and it’s that personality that alters our perceptions.
When it comes to you and your relationship with money your personality also plays it’s part. Clearly we can acknowledge pessimists have a different take on life than optimists or even realists. Warren Buffett, arguable the world’s most prolific investor through his company Berkshire Hathaway, is noted as having an opinion on the human mind in his quotes “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful” echoing the sentiment of the contrarian thinker.
