- If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly, and even catastrophically,
you stand very little chance of ever getting rich. - If you care what the neighbours think, you will never get rich.
- If you cannot bear the thought of causing worry to your family, spouse
or lover while you plough a lonely, dangerous road rather than taking the
safe option of a regular job, you will never get rich. - If you have artistic inclinations and fear that the search for wealth will
coarsen such talents or degrade them, you will never get rich. (Because
your fear, in this instance, is well justified.) - If you are not prepared to work longer hours than almost anyone you know,
despite the jibes of colleagues and friends, you are unlikely to get rich. - If you cannot convince yourself that you are ‘good enough’ to be rich,
you will never get rich. - If you cannot treat your quest to get rich as a game, you will never be rich.
Getting rich isn’t just about making money. It’s a psychological and emotional war against everything that keeps most people mediocre: fear of shame, fear of failure, fear of judgment, fear of loneliness.
Most people want to be rich and stay loved by everyone, and never take risks, and remain “pure” artists, and sleep eight hours, and be praised at dinner parties.
Impossible.
Wealth demands a price. Often that price is social comfort, peace of mind, or even your self-image as a “nice” or “balanced” person.
You will disappoint people you love.
You will embarrass yourself.
You will feel like a lunatic at times.
You will lose friends.
You will question your sanity.
If you can’t stomach this, then wealth will remain a fantasy.
The line that stands out most: “If you cannot treat your quest to get rich as a game, you will never be rich.”
This is the ultimate shift: stop taking yourself so seriously. Once it becomes a game, you free yourself from fear of loss, from ego, from needing validation. You start to play for the thrill, the mastery, the power — not just the money.
The world belongs to those who can dance with risk, who can smile while walking the tightrope, who can gamble and still laugh when they lose.
Richness is not just financial — it’s spiritual audacity.
Most want a girlfriend and a happy family. Me? i want to build a legend. a fat boi from h-town city, who, against all odds, all the fucking doubters, move up to the very top. It's gonna be HARD, cuz it's supposed to be hard. I dont care. Fear and Stress are my friends. Give me war. Let me see what im made of. - Phạm Xuân Nam Chính
Here is my suggestion. Think of this fear not as the King Kong of bogeymen,
but as a mare. A nightmare. A mare, after all, is a horse. A horse can be tamed,
bridled, saddled, harnessed and (eventually) ridden. Harnessing the power of
such a creature adds mightily to your own. Thus the nightmare of prospective
failure provides you with the very opportunity you are seeking. Not only does it
restrain smarter people than yourself from becoming rich – and there can only be
so many rich people in the world – it affords you the chance of increasing your
confidence, both when you confront it and when you master it