How We Perceive Our Income

Monday, October 05, 2015

We don’t speak openly about our money – it’s “taboo”. By not discussing our actual earnings, we leave others with no choice but to make assumptions, based purely on how they see us behave with our money.

My maths teacher did an experiment with our class in high school, she wanted to know our perception of what our parents earned.

This clever teacher understood the phenomenon, and wanted us to realise it while we were still young enough for it to make a difference: before we started earning our own salaries.

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How We Perceive Our Income

We don’t speak openly about our money – it’s “taboo”. By not discussing our actual earnings, we leave others with no choice but to make assumptions, based purely on how they see us behave with our money.

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