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Personal responsibility is the way to claim all of the influence available. 

It does not create influence. 

As I enact personal responsibility, I must remember that there are many situations in the world wherein my influence is 0%. I am able to respond, and that's it. I am not able to control, change, fix, solve, heal, or even participate in any of the foregoing. 

This is what prevents victim-blaming as I claim my empowerment. Responsibility is distinct from influence, and I do not torture myself with ideas that my thinking "manifested" disease, death, toxic cycles, predators, or any other of the random anything possible in life. 

Sometimes, my 100% responsibility is happening while I have 0% influence. 

Making sense of "Love Money, Money Loves You". At work the book Love Money, Money Loves You by Sarah McCrum came up, so I read it. Broadly speaking, I don’t recommend it.

It gestures toward some perspectives I think will be very personally rewarding, on topics including: value, service, exchange, agency, and happiness. Reading it has planted the seeds of some ideas that have real potential. But those grains of pre-insight are surrounded by bullshit, falsity, and inconsistency. I feel like my epistemic immune system got a real workout, fending off a bunch of idea-germs and allowing to digest the information safely.

Has anyone here read it? I’m wondering if you can help me make sense of it faster than I will alone. Assuming that you haven’t taken it literally: how have you interpreted it and what have you changed as a result of reading it? Are there any other books which share the same ideas but with less bullshit?