Many people wrongly assume that the most important issue among families is money and wealth transfer — it’s not. What we found was the memories, the stories, the values were 10 times more important to people than the money.
Ken Dychtwald is an American psychologist, gerontologist, documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur and best-selling author.
When the news today is primarily about the global financial crisis and many are worried about their future security, it may be of some comfort to know that one of our greatest assets has nothing to do with our monetary wealth. For my mother, who lived through The Great Depression, her memories of that time have little to do with poverty. She recalls the adventure of leaving the city of Winnipeg with her widowed mother and older brother and sister to homestead in the rugged wilderness of northern British Columbia. It was a time remembered for the support of family and strangers, the pleasures of a simple life and the satisfaction of adapting to a new land.
Safely locked in our hearts, our stories can never be devalued by the whims of the stock market.
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