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This was recommended to me at a virtual finance workshop I attended, and because of the event and the speaker, I actually went into this book a little hesitant even though I was very interested. And it wound up really subverting some of my expectations in a positive way.
On the negative side, I didn't care for about 95% of the personal anecdotes, largely because they landed on the cynical shell of my heart in just the wrong way (I could barely get through the Mother Teresa bit at the beginning). And it was very hit or miss with how well she acknowledged the privilege of money, although I understood the point she was making about how people of any income level can have a good or bad relationship with money, and she was never disrespectful of people trying to transform that relationship.
That said, the writing is very accessible and this was a very quick read. Plus the conversations she had around money really resonated with me, and she articulated a lot of the thoughts and feelings I've been dwelling on for a while. Ultimately, I think this book will stick with me for a while.
On the negative side, I didn't care for about 95% of the personal anecdotes, largely because they landed on the cynical shell of my heart in just the wrong way (I could barely get through the Mother Teresa bit at the beginning). And it was very hit or miss with how well she acknowledged the privilege of money, although I understood the point she was making about how people of any income level can have a good or bad relationship with money, and she was never disrespectful of people trying to transform that relationship.
That said, the writing is very accessible and this was a very quick read. Plus the conversations she had around money really resonated with me, and she articulated a lot of the thoughts and feelings I've been dwelling on for a while. Ultimately, I think this book will stick with me for a while.
reflective
slow-paced
I've been wanting to read this book for quite some time, but it was quite slow and hard to get into. After getting into it, it felt sometimes like more of a memoir than anything else. We hear about Twist (a middle classed US-American white woman)'s experiences across the world faced with poverty, hunger, sacrifice and trauma.
Regardless, I was able to find quite a few good points in the book and it has inspired me to be wiser with my money and less stingy when it comes to donating my money and time to causes I care about.
Here are the parts I'd underlined in the book :)
Regardless, I was able to find quite a few good points in the book and it has inspired me to be wiser with my money and less stingy when it comes to donating my money and time to causes I care about.
Here are the parts I'd underlined in the book :)
More is better is a chase with no end and a race without winners.
make a real living, which is different from making enough to pay the rent, or making a killing.
There are no haves and have-nots. We are all haves and our assets are diverse. In the alchemy of collaboration, we become equal partners; we create wholeness and sufficiency for everyone...
In a you-or-me world, reciprocity and collaboration don't fit. A you-and-me world is full of collaborators, partners, sharing, and reciprocity.
Most of us think that freedom means to keep our options open, stay loose and available, and often that strategy does give you a little space temporarily. Eventually, though, keeping your options endlessly open becomes its own prison. You can never choose. You can never fall in love. You can never marry. You can never take the job. You can never really discover your destiny because you are afraid to commit fully.
If you look back on the experience of freedom in your life chances are that it wasn't when you were measuring the options against one another, or making sure you weren't getting stuck with a decision. It was when you were fully expressed, playing full out. It was when you chose fully and completely, when you knew you were in the place you were meant to be in, when perhaps you even felt a sense of destiny.
Money can affirm life or it can be used to demean, diminish, or destroy it. It is neither evil nor good; it is an instrument.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Violence
In my opinion this is a “must read” for all adults whether you make a lot, a little or no money. It’s presents a different take on money than anything I’ve read before. Twist presents ideas on what it really means to be wealthy that will likely change the way you think about money. It was particularly interesting to read during the pandemic as some concepts seem eerily prophetic and incredibly relevant during this strange time.
A really nice meditation on sufficiency thinking and more inclusive and mindful ways to use money. This came into my life at a good time, so I especially appreciate it.
Interesting ideas. Things felt a bit half baked while I was reading. I kept hoping everything would be wrapped up with supporting information or data. Most of the conclusions are based on the author's personal experiences. The ideas are a bit hard to swallow when the only evidence comes from first hand accounts of an upper middle class American. This book largely felt like a disjointed memoir.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
We’ve all heard the catch-phrase ‘Don’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover’ right?
Well, for years I wouldn’t pick up this book because of the title. I thought, ‘Money doesn’t have a soul. Yikes. It sounds so evil.’
But then I picked it up and within seconds I was drawn into this incredibly powerful storyline of a woman who learned how we can put ‘our’ soul in the money we earn, spend, invest, and give. We can make the money that flows through our lives imbue our soul by intention. Our money acts as an extension of how we see the world and how we wish to change the world.
This book has caused something to shift in my soul. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to read it.
Well, for years I wouldn’t pick up this book because of the title. I thought, ‘Money doesn’t have a soul. Yikes. It sounds so evil.’
But then I picked it up and within seconds I was drawn into this incredibly powerful storyline of a woman who learned how we can put ‘our’ soul in the money we earn, spend, invest, and give. We can make the money that flows through our lives imbue our soul by intention. Our money acts as an extension of how we see the world and how we wish to change the world.
This book has caused something to shift in my soul. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to read it.
"This stuff called money, mass-produced tokens or paper bills with no more inherent power than a notepad or a Kleenex, has become the single most controlling force in our lives." ~Lynne Twist
I first learned this in an anthropology class, when the professor challenged, "Name something that our society deems valuable but has no inherit value itself." Money is a social construct. I was stunned.
Yet I never thought of the all-encompassing power we give money over our lives until reading this book. Or that we can give money a "soul" by how we use it and think about it. The difference between net-worth and self-worth is vast. An eye-opening book.
I first learned this in an anthropology class, when the professor challenged, "Name something that our society deems valuable but has no inherit value itself." Money is a social construct. I was stunned.
Yet I never thought of the all-encompassing power we give money over our lives until reading this book. Or that we can give money a "soul" by how we use it and think about it. The difference between net-worth and self-worth is vast. An eye-opening book.
Nice. A new perspective on money. Makes me see that I have more than I realize.