Mark Cuban. NBA monwy owner. Shark Tank star. Consummate salesperson. According to Cuban: «It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn. No hacks. No shortcuts.
Mark Cuban is a very smart guy. Possibly to your surprise, he’s also a very nice guy. According to Mark, «It’s not about money or connections, it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. Whenever I write about how success is often based on outworking other people — both in terms of effort and in terms of hours spent — many people respond with righteous indignation. Hard work has nothing to do with it,» I often hear. Um, no. You can’t have it both ways. You can work smarter, sure, but you also have to work harder. Take successful entrepreneurs. Bill Gates evidently never slept, never changed clothes, never did anything but code and maneuver and strategize.
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In an industry filled with incredibly smart people — where smart was and is commonplace — he rose to the top by also working incredibly hard. In fact, the common theme of almost every tale of entrepreneurial success is a person who worked countless to hour days. Replace the names and their stories sound almost identical. Even Tim Ferriss, the lord of the four-hour workweek manor, stays incredibly busy with all his projects. Of course, to Tim it doesn’t feel like work.
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But I was a stubborn holdout. I got my first debit card when I was In other words, I might be feeling this uneasiness because I am imagining that I could be spending that money on other things instead. As more and more people across the world shun cash, these are essential issues to consider. These include the fact the silver was regularly tested for its fineness and there was a stabilising force, such as a King or government, which people could trust to guarantee the value of the money. Many people think that money bring happiness.
Best of all, it doesn’t involve money or connections or even luck.
I have a memory as a boy, saving my pocket money by placing it in a special drawer, the golden pound coins collecting into a neat stack.
Although the stack never got too high to endanger its structural integrity. I grew up in Hastings, a small coastal town in East Sussex, famous for and seaside charm. I got my first debit card when I was Later, I saved up money for a gap year, by working at a bingo hall, and I put the money into a savings account.
I avoided credit cards. Skip forward to and I was living and working in Beijing, China, as a freelance journalist. All around me Beijing residents were paying for everything using just their smartphones. They would walk up to a counter of a restaurant, shop, or convenience store, and offer up a QR code for the cashier to scan. No fumbling for cash and waiting for change. No swipe of a plastic card. The transaction would take seconds.
But I was a stubborn holdout. But there were a couple of reasons why I kept using physical money and avoided getting into e-payments and e-wallets. Firstly, it felt safer. Having physical cash just felt safer. Secondly, I feared that by moving to electronic payments, and losing the greater friction of paying with cash, I would end up spending. I was afraid that by losing the tangible, visible qualities of paper money, and the physical transaction — of fishing out my wallet, finding the required bills, and handing over the cash — I would lose all sense of how much, day by day, I would be spending.
Were these fears justified? As more and more people across the world shun cash, these are essential issues to consider. Money is an abstract concept — and today we take it for granted, not considering how a piece of paper, or pieces of metal, are valuable items in themselves. But money is a relatively recent invention, and it represented a fundamental change in human society, says Natacha Postel-Vinay, who teaches a course in the history of money and finance at the London School of Economics.
You just needed some silver. In technical terms, money is a store of value, and should be a unit of account, which simply means that it must be of a standardized unit like a currency.
The first recorded use of money was in ancient Iraq and Syria, in the Babylon civilisation, around BC. In Babylonian times people used chunks of silver which were accounted according to a standardised weight known as a shekel. From Babylon, we have records of the first prices, recorded by priests at the Temple of Marduk, as well as the first ledgers and the first debts.
From Babylon we have many of the essential things required for a monetary economy. These include the fact the silver was regularly tested for its fineness and there was a stabilising force, such as a King or government, which people could trust to guarantee the value of the money. But there have been many developments in money along the way. From about BC other civilisations were using precious metal, and in ancient Greece, in the Kingdom of Lydia, the first coins were minted.
Nowadays, money is not tied to physical objects that are in themselves valuable commodities, such as gold or silver coins, but we use a form called fiat money which is a currency that a government has established as legal tender. The concept of credit and debt existed long before credit cards were invented. Subsequently, credit cards were promoted to travelling salesmen, for them to use while on the road, in America.
The first debit card appeared in the UK in Chip and pin was introduced inand contactless credit cards followed four years later. In China, meanwhile, scanning QR codes with your smartphoneor generating QR codes on your smartphone to be scanned by merchants, was co-opted as a means of making payments.
From aroundadoption of e-payments in day-to-day usage became much more prevalent. Countries that have the highest rates of cashless spending include Canadawhere having more than two credits cards per person is a norm.
Emelie Svensson, a Swede who works in New York City as a broadcast journalist, says the two countries are very different when it comes to the use of cash. And although the UK might be increasing in its use of non-cash payments, it still has a long way to go. For Moa Carlsson, a year-old butcher from Gothenburg, the country feels quaint in comparison to her native Sweden. I would almost feel strange not to use cash. For people who live in these increasingly cashless societies, the benefits of electronic payment are obvious.
Like Carlsson, he says dealing in cash feels antiquated. Does spending without using physical cash make people spend more? This is a complicated question and it involves seeing humans as fundamentally irrational creatures, in various ways. In other words, the pain of the loss stings more, even though the two sums are exactly the.
This kind of psychological insight has powered enormous change in the field of economics. Whereas before, in classical economics, academics based their theories on the assumption that people behave rationally so that the loss and gain of an equal sum would be treated the same by an individualthis was shown to be false by psychological studies.
This led to the discipline of behavioural economics and branches such as consumer psychology. One of the great researchers in this relatively new discipline is Drazen Prelec. The MIT professor once conducted a study that involved a silent auction. The auction was held for students at the prestigious Sloan business school, for tickets to sold-out NBA basketball games. The researchers told half the bidders they could pay only with cash, while the other half were told they could pay only with a credit card.
The results astonished the researchers. On average, it was found that the credit card buyers were bidding more than twice as much as the cash buyers. What this means, according to Prelec, is that the psychological cost of spending a dollar on a credit card is only 50 cents.
Spending on a credit card clearly has effects on how people spend, which numerous studies have borne. So much so, in fact, that behavioural economists believe this explains the continuing popularity of debit cards. But what about using e-wallets? With credit cards, the pain of payment is delayed until that monthly bill arrives. The great ability of credit cards, in other words, is that they wield the psychological power of separating the pleasure of buying from the pain of paying.
But with e-wallets, users can see that money is deducted immediately. This is instant feedback and so does not have the same effect as a credit card. Although there is no similar research yet on paying with e-wallets, it could be hypothesised that the flinch moment could be missing when paying with a smartphone. But this needs more research. This pain of parting with our money can keep us from overspending, but the negative aspect is that it can rob us some of the joy in consuming.
Prepayment is another method, even when there is no financial advantage. Companies such as Club Med have latched onto this kind of psychology, where their resort guests buy plastic chips to use instead of cash.
For me, I eventually transitioned to using e-payments in Beijing. It is like living in a world where you get all the benefits of spending, without the pain of paying. Perhaps this is better for economies, where it could be beneficial if people spend their money more freely, and many governments around the world are trying to encourage. In other words, I might be feeling this uneasiness because I am imagining that I could be spending that money on other things instead.
As more societies move from cash-based to cashless, the way we spend might change. But money will remain a governing force in the lives of humans. This article is part of our Weird West series.
Back ina team at the University of British Columbia pointed out that psychology research contains a major flaw: much of it is based on samples entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic — or Weird — societies. The researchers often assumed that their findings would be applicable to people. In this series, we dig into what this looks like in everyday life.
What habits and ways of thinking are common in Weird societies that people living elsewhere in the world might find, well, weird? And what does this tell us, not only about cultural differences, but about ourselves? You might also like: The greatest myth about money The secret codes of banknotes Bitcoin and the illusion of money But I was a stubborn holdout.
Just five years ago I paid my rent in cash! But what of the supposed disadvantages? Neural pathways light up almost like brief physical pain when we part with our money. Weird West This article is part of our Weird West series. Read. Open share tools. Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Instagram.
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I’m not looking for advice here, just curious to see how people would answer the question. If you were unemployed, eagerly looking for work, and the first offer you got was from a company well-known for brutally abusing employees, would you take it? I foolishly got involved in a flame-war on Facebook over this very issue. Someone posted that a certain company was opening a shop in this area and would be hiring soon.
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A second guy posted that said company was in the news for being a horrendous place to work. The second guy was attacked by everyone for being negative. I jumped in to support him and was beat down. The general consensus isany job is a good job if you need the money and that people are looking for any excuses to complain and not work. I stand firm in my belief on this matter which is, I would happily be unemployed if my only alternative was to work in a place that treated me so bad I got physically ill from it.
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