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RE: "How-To-Be-A-Millionaire" Books Are Bullshit

in #money7 years ago


If being a millionaire was something people could learn by reading books, there would have been millionaires dime a dozen.
Thank you for bringing this thought provoking blog to us.@kyriacos - I agree. It is very easy to 'find' reasons of one's success in hindsight. In hindsight, everything that the successful person did seems to 'contribute to success'. In reality, many times, two people with exactly the same strategy, effort and capability may come up with different outcomes just because of one of them was at the right time and right place due to his/her luck.

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well, I would say that reading books only give you past insights of the particular author who wrote the books. Tactics and strategies to employ to get "rich" differs from person to person and they don't always situate OUR circumstances and situation. Let me give you an example:

  1. If you are born beautiful and attract a ton of attention of the opposite sex, then it's only natural for you to capitalize on your "BEAUTY" power to make money.
  2. If you love science and you spend all your time inventing stuff as a scientist, then you are trading your brains to capitalize on your "INTELLECTUAL" power to make money.
  3. If you are athletically-inclined and can run a mile under 5 min, then you are using your muscle to capitalize on your "PHYSICAL" power to make money.

I can go on and on, but you get what I mean.

We all have different attributes and personality that allows us to convert our "power" to money. Many of us also require a lot of time to unlock our "power" through various stages of our lives. The earlier we discover our potential, the faster we can "capitalize" on our abilities.

A wrong situation, a wrong timing, a wrong decision might set us off on a different path so we'll never discover our "power."

That's where "luck" plays a role.

Then again, money is just a medium of exchange. What's the use of becoming a millionaire when there's no services or goods to purchase.

Just a thought. :D