Underliving is usually a consequence of factors such as ignorance, mental blocks, emotional disturbances, trauma, a lack of imagination, the habit of underliving, having grown-up in a family and/or neighborhood where most
people underlived, the lack of good examples and role models, and other foolish reasons such as fear of success.
Because different
people have different goals and standards, what one individual
may consider to be underliving, another individual
may consider to be living correctly, thus well.
Overall, compared to Americans and
people in other highly (materially) highly developed nations, approximately 90% of the
people who live in developing nations can be said to be underliving. Some Americans also underlive.
The Ph.D. candidate realized that he was not eating and dressing as well as he could afford to because he was stuck in the habit of underliving.
