Even though I give high importance to saving money, I’m still lacking skills on where to invest our hard earned money. Hence, I started reading quite a number of books related to investment. Last week I was reading “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” by Harv Eker. One non-investment thing that strike me in the book was what we learn from our parents and how our parents’ habits affect our behavior. I tried to connect it with my experience and found that to some extend this is true.
My father was a spendthrift. He used to spend lavishly for things that we didn’t need. He is a wonderful father and now after some bitter experiences he is slowly improving his spending habits. His sufferings due to money made a great impact in my life. I became the opposite of him when it comes to money. Even though I’m not thrifty, I give more importance to saving money than spending.
Another example is, my mother believes in one GOD. She always says that we have only one GOD in the world and people pray the GOD in different forms/ways. This made a strong impact in me and now I strongly believe in this philosophy too.
Even though the outcome of the above two examples are positive, some times we learn bad things too (like procrastination). If one of our parents lie unnecessarily, deep in our mind we’ll conclude that lying is not a deadly mistake. But sometimes it is.
I too have few bad habits that I inherited from my relatives and I gave some of my bad habits to them. Unless we find out what are all those bad habits we got from them, we cannot change those bad habits.
Mind you, I love my parents unconditionally and I’m blessed to have such a wonderful parents. All I’m saying is each person has some bad habits and their kids may learn some of them from their parents and siblings.
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