The Genius of Money | Part III Interview

An interview with an Lynne Twist

-- Founding member of The Hunger Project, co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance, author of The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life.

At the beginning of the interview, Lynne told us her childhood story and background. It surprises me that she is so successful in her school life. At the same time, she has her very religious side, especially after the death of her father. She blames on herself for her father’s death, and was trying to do something to make up for it, to make her father proud. 

Then the Hunger Project came along, which gave her a platform to combine her public and religious life. She came to the realization that “the commons and communal values were much higher than individual values” (167). 

The later part of the interview got really deep with the talking about sufficiency and money. It is so deep that my brain could not process their talking. Instead, I just thought they are talking something so deep to make themselves higher than they are. 

Overall, I like the character of Lynne, who is sincere and kind, doing good for the humankind and the economic system. She thinks of beautiful things, such as turning money into a carrier that has taken her “deep into he soul of humanity”(169). I think I am just not as romantic as she is, and I rather to view money as practical as it is. It was interesting that there are so many different kinds of people exist on the plant.