COMMON SENSE
Since childhood, I have been told that "I have no common sense."   As a kid, I didn't understand these unspoken agreements, cultural conventions.  As I got older, I have become proud of the fact that I have no common sense.  As Steve Martin says to the naked Roxanne "Oh, irony, we don't get that around here.  See, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony is not a high priority."  in response to her sarcastically declining his invitation to get her a coat "No, I'd really like to stand out here in the freezing cold, naked."     I release myself from the belief that everybody wants the same thing.  I encourage clarity in values and desires.  I am proud to be gullible ("because i have seen stranger things than you are making up.")  I believe that being a world traveler makes me less able to know what the assumed cultural conventions  of your provincial town are because in my experience, they are different everywhere. 

I feel that I am lucky that I somehow have never defined success as making lots of money.  However, only now, I am beginning to recognize that I work very hard because I have almost rebelled against systems that make money.  I have almost held money as an evil rather than a tool.  Like the quintessential teenager rebelling for the sake of rebelling, I have failed to embrace the Buddhist principle of no attachment and NO aversion.
 I see money now as merely another powerful tool that I have the choice of its influence in my life.  But just like Facebook or cell phones or many other tools, many of us have a challenging time using them wisely.   They are all wonderful tools, but terrible masters.   Guidance from the elders is critical to form healthy relationships (both with humans) and with tools.