Oleg Cherne

The issue of money is above all a psychological issue, a bank of perceptions. These perceptions can be either inborn or acquired, so they form two factors which define the following principle: the relation to money can be a relation of dependency or a relation of interaction. Therefore, the question we should consider is: does money grant us actual freedom or not?

We can rephrase the problem in the following manner: is money freedom or dependency? After all, being dependent on 10 dollars is one thing, if it's 10 000 dollars - another, and in the case of millions - it's a different matter altogether. It's, so to speak, a tricky piece of work.

Our task is to determine the conditions that enable us to operate with money, and therefore to make money as well as spend it. For the more one makes, the more he spends. And the way we spend money defines our personal concept of freedom and leads to the development of the 'I want' state, which is inversely proportional to the state of development, because development is never related to money. What correlates with money is status and not development.

One of society's misconceptions is that schools and institutions are the road to personal development. Yet the true road to personal development is in cultivating one's drive for development. This drive is what defines one's need and ability to develop. And if the need for a certain sum of money arises in this case (say money for books and computers, or teachers), then one can easily earn this money. Whereas being a millionaire or depending on millions is a dilemma faced only by those who want big money.

And in order to deal with this issue one needs to have an office or, so to speak, a place where he can stop and ask himself some questions and start looking for answers. And, oddly enough, to us this place is our brain. Incidentally, the California University has provided us with a scientific proof of the brain's dependency on money. Their research has demonstrated that one's attitude to money is related to a certain activity within the amygdala, the brain tissue located in the medial temporal lobes of the brain.

So in order to become millionaires we need to:

In order to set forth the conditions we must meet so as to become millionaires, we must develop the nature of the sixth sense, the nature of our brain which must manage all the resources of the body. So 'the desire to be a millionaire' and 'the possession of millions' are two completely different concepts. For one can simply be born to a millionaire's family and have it all, yet this would not mean that he is a capable man, or that he can understand the nature of money or the nature of the money making process.