| The emotional charge around the ideas we've been exposed to about money, wealth, and trade is intense. As I've shown in some of my previous columns, our emotions around money plug into our most primal fears... The allure of hope, and the misery of shame. It can inspire the ugliest of emotions: envy; and the most benevolent qualities of flourishing and generosity. Financial success can bring a sense of triumph. Financial abundance can bring a sense of ease. But the lack of money - or the risk of losing it - can inspire a life-or-death level of terror. And on a fundamental level, many of the ideas we've been exposed to about money, wealth, and trade have forced an impossible relationship with our own striving for success. If money is bad and the root of all evil, then we shouldn't want that kind of success, right? And yet, we need to earn money to buy what we need and want. If we earn more than we need, we feel a sense of ease, we can afford to be generous, we can look beyond our self-absorption with bare survival. We have the leisure to create, to think, to help others, and enjoy beautiful possibilities on this earth. Do you see the bind this puts investors in? | 
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