Develop a personality instead of using conspicuous consumption
Summary
- Develop a personality instead of using conspicuous consumption
Details
- Pursue and develop your interests
- develop an opinion
- eccentric is good
- ignoring cultural conventions allows you to be interesting
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This is far from an essential step to frugality, but having more personality is a seriously excellent substitute for constructing a persona via consumption patterns (like what you own, wear, eat and drive; where you live and holiday). You don’t have to become one of those old men who get about in bare feet and a pinstripe suit with a six-foot python wrapped about their necks, but you do have to hone-in on things you’re interested in and pursue them, develop your own opinions, or let some of those quirks and eccentricities that you may have been suppressing blossom into visible traits. People love to gossip, so give them that gift by being worthy of it! Cultivate blithe disregard for a couple of your least favourite cultural conventions – it makes people feel less embarrassed about their own shortfalls by comparison! Be simultaneously stupendous in some other regards, and you’ve got yourself a package.
Related
- Learning a new language causes one to take on a new personality
- Controlling our thinking results in controlling our personality
- Personal change requires some space to happen
- To develop a complete mind - Study the science of art - Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else - da Vinci