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This is Optimal Finance Daily. Trading Time for Money by J.D. Roth of get rich slowly.org.

Last week, I was complaining to my Spanish tutor, who, by the way, thinks I always complain.

Ideally, I'd be writing less, I told her. I want to have more time to learn Spanish and to

focus on other passions. But I just got an offer to write a couple more articles per week,

and I would get paid for the work. My tutor shook her head. She told me, in Spanish, the monkey dances for money.

She didn't have to explain what she meant. It was obvious. Money makes us do things we wouldn't do

otherwise. It turns us into puppets. Although my tutor had a point, it's not as simple as that.

Yes, we sometimes do things we don't want to do in order

to earn money, but sometimes doing these things allows us to get money so that we can pursue our passions

later. I write a monthly column for a magazine, I said in Spanish, of course. The amount I earn from that

column each month is exactly the same as what I pay you each month.

Every month, I tell myself that I'm writing the column so that I could learn Spanish. That keeps me

motivated to do it. Personal currencies. This conversation reminded me of personal currencies,

which I first mentioned four years ago.

At the time, I wrote, quote, money is an abstract concept. It really represents time and

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