I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

If you get people to feel that they are putting something, that they are creating it and so on, their love for the project would increase. The more something is yours, the more you're willing to invest in it.

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.

If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10, the best use of $10 you can use? Of course not. If I have you a CD, you know exactly what you are getting and you will have a value for it. So, money has lots of problems with it.

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.