When you wish you had a crys­tal ball, or not.

I lis­te­ned to this while wri­ting this post, try it while you read :o)

This post is the last of a series of fif­teen posts about free­dom during the COVID-19 cri­sis. These posts must be read in order, star­ting with the 6th post would make abso­lu­te­ly no sense to the rea­der. Enjoy rea­ding and above all, enjoy reflecting.

So what do we do now? Well, we know that des­pite eve­ry­thing, we will accept many small sacri­fices before going out on the streets to scream out how unhap­py we are. But what about indi­vi­dual free­dom? Well, our lea­ders are doing all of this pre­ci­se­ly to pro­tect it. Of course, I’m tal­king about the lea­ders of nations based on mar­ket eco­no­mies. Let the far­mer concen­trate on his crops, let the live­stock far­mer concen­trate on his ani­mals, let the miner concen­trate on extrac­ting ore, in other words, let eve­ryone resume their acti­vi­ties as Adam Smith so apt­ly des­cri­bed in The Wealth of Nations.

It is only by resu­ming our res­pec­tive acti­vi­ties that we will once again find an accep­table world, and know this, it takes only about 6 months for the level of satis­fac­tion of a situa­tion to become the new stan­dard. That’s why many people in pre­ca­rious condi­tions are often hap­pier than weal­thy people. There are so many oppor­tu­ni­ties to improve your life when you have little.

Indi­vi­dual free­dom doesn’t come from wealth, but from the plea­sure of being free, or less free, because the oppo­site is usual­ly impos­sible to achieve.

-Dan­ny

I’m Dan­ny (aka Coa­ch­Dan­ny). I have a pas­sion: humans. Come with me and take this minute eve­ry day to explore what’s going on today and why is it tren­ding. Click here to get your dai­ly thought right on time for break­fast.

Sources: https://solomotivation.com

Trans­la­tion by Abbie Sims: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acsims/

Last Upda­ted on May 16, 2020 by Coach Dan­ny