Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

I think society was sort of designed so that we wouldn't talk about money.

Why?

Because I think it's designed so that we have a few people at the top and a lot of people at the

bottom.

Then of course the middle class emerged and we've gone

through different things as a middle class as a collective, right? I think that's

part of the reason why it's like don't tell you know employers saying don't tell your coworkers how much you're making because I'm paying you more than I'm paying this one and I don't want y'all to know right so it's like it comes from those places, but it's reinforced everywhere, you know?

Right.

Everyone's reinforcing.

Exactly.

Not just corporations or.

Yes, and because there's so much mystery, it's like, I don't know how much you make we don't know and we're

scared to make assumptions and we're sort of guessing and we're like well if I put

mine out there I might be embarrassed because I discovered that like I'm

actually either making too much related to my peers or too little.

And I think it goes back to belonging.

We just want to belong to a community, to a group.

Because of that, it's like we don't want to do anything that's going to make us not belong.

It's such an inherent human need to belong.

And so I think that we don't talk about money because we think it's going to affect our ability to belong,

whether it means we're too broke

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