There are people in life who are always afraid of losing money, want to take advantage of others, and are full of jealousy when facing their peers. Such people are highly nervous themselves and make others uneasy. But if we conduct psychological analysis on this, we can find that this phenomenon exists in everyone's heart.

There is a fairness theory in management psychology, that is, everyone in a group will unconsciously measure whether the ratio of their own output and income is fair and reasonable compared with others. In the past, we practiced a big-pot-style egalitarianism, doing more and doing less, which made everyone passive because everyone was afraid of suffering a loss. The incentive mechanism emphasized by modern enterprise management is actually the fear of losing money mechanism that makes good use of human nature.

Although modern society encourages competition, if you use any means to achieve your own interests, such people will certainly have psychological problems. Psychodynamics believes that an overly selfish person may suffer from a "poverty complex." As the saying goes, this person is "fearful of poverty." Therefore, even if he is relatively wealthy now, he still behaves in a "vicious" and greedy manner. In fact, the hearts of the nouveau riche are still under the shadow of the extreme poverty of the past. This kind of poverty complex can be seen everywhere in today's society. Many people participate in exhibitions and always take everything as long as it is free, regardless of whether they need it or not.

The poverty complex is for people who have experienced poverty in life in the past, but now many people have not suffered too much material poverty, so we must pay attention to whether they have experienced poverty on the psychological level. Poverty, that is, whether there is "narcissistic hunger". American psychologist Koch believes that children are indistinguishable from inside and outside when they are very young. A child's self-concept includes himself and his parents, and parents are called "self-objects" in a child's self-concept. If parents are insensitive to their children, the children will feel the lack of the "self-object" of their parents, and thus develop a sense of deficiency in that vague self-conception, and always want to make up for their inner weakness by possessing external objects. In layman's terms, just like children always want to grab their parents, adults always want to grab more foreign objects to make themselves feel solid and safe.

In addition to "poverty complex" and "narcissistic hunger", another direct cause of the fear of losing is imitation. In a family, if parents often act fussy and petty in front of their children, the children will easily imitate them.

Facing the problem of always being afraid of losing money, there is actually a very good saying in traditional Chinese moral education: "Suffer small losses and make big gains." If you follow this sentence, without having to change your habitual fear of losing, you will not only not be annoying on the surface, but you can even win the favor of everyone.