What Is A Safety Net? And Why Do You Need One?

Also, how to create a safety net.

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Just like the name suggests, a safety net is a protection to avoid you falling and breaking apart. The safety net concept can be applied to all areas of your life. In this article, I will focus on the emotional safety net, the financial safety net and the mental safety net.

Lately, the safety net concept has been largely commented on together with discussions about privilege.

The higher your privilege, the better your safety net is.

How To Measure Your Privilege And What To Do With It

It’s almost like you walk in the world with a cushion around you protecting you from all the dangers of being human in 2021.

But what do you do when you don’t have privileges? Well, you need to create a safety net for yourself. We all need more than one safety net to help us navigate this world without struggling and suffering too much.

See, your safety nets are a form of comfort when you most need them, a form of…