Aaah, but here's a question for you. With all the mountains of literature written on how to be wealthy, healthy and happy, why do you suppose there are still SO many people that are not? That's why there will always be more room for more people to contribute their perspectives to these age old questions.
dawn
· 1 year ago
I was on the same line of thought as RetiredSyd. I don't think the point is all about "Original Ideas" but more about presenting an idea in a way that will speak to people. We all tend to hear what we want to hear - sometimes it's a certain author, musician, or politician that connects with us as individuals. I wouldn't say there is a whole heck of a lot of "originality" in any of our current presidential candidates - but Obama seems to be delivering his message in a way that people are hearing it. I think the same holds true with writers - if they hit it at the right time in the right form... crazy success. Like J.K. Rowling - stunning success. I believe if we approach our work authentically it will resonate with people. And dude - you are totally right on the buckets off free info available on the web. It's an amazing thing!
bubelah
· 1 year ago
RS: A lot of people are poor because no matter how much they read about "how to be wealthy or rich" they do not change their mental attitude and they are lazy to take any actions. We all dream of being rich, but that's not enough. For most people it stays as a dream, not a goal.
Steve (Brip Blap)
· 1 year ago
@RetiredSyd: Dawn actually gave an answer to your question, which is that the message has to appeal to the individual. I may think Robert Kiyosaki is inspirational and the next person may think he's a hack; someone else may find Dave Ramsey to be a genius and I might find him tedious. It just depends on the individual to such a huge extent that crafting a universal message is almost impossible - the same reason why we aren't all Christians or Muslims or Buddhists or Atheists or Zoroastrians. The 100% convincing argument on spirituality or wealth or ANY topic doesn't exist. So you're right that there's always room to provide new takes on the same stuff - I guess my point was that an awful lot of "new" content is just old content repackaged. Doesn't make it bad, though.
Great way to put it, Dawn. And Bubelah's right - I have read a lot of books on wealth but I've probably still only put about 1% of those ideas into action. A lot of that knowledge lodges itself into the "dream" section of the brain rather than the "action" section. I am trying to quit reading more "wealth building" info and start putting those ideas into wealth building ACTION myself, because it's awfully easy to read and awfully hard to do. To quote from The Science of Getting Rich (yes, I know, I'm doing what I just preached against :) ):
"Thinking in a certain way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific thinkers meet shipwreck — the failure to connect thought with personal action."
Curmudgeon
· 1 year ago
"He was here, at this point in space, a million dollars was at that other point a little ways away. He just couldn't see a path from where he was to where that million dollars was."
I wrote that in one of my novels a few years back (no prizes for naming the novel). I still think it succinctly summarizes how we are bound by the limits in what we believe we can accomplish. It's not necessarily due to the lack of effort so much as in where to focus that effort, and how to take the successive steps to reach that goal.
Shawn@MoneyBrick
· 1 year ago
Your post is good, Steve, but I think you've got one thing wrong! The treasure trove of free information we know as the Internet (more than just public domain works) has broken down all the barriers previously preventing many things from being free. In ten years, things will be even freer than they are now! Publishers probably won't even be able to sell books at that point in time; they'll have to search for other means of an income. I think it was ten years past (even longer) that things were privatized and monetized.
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And dude - you are totally right on the buckets off free info available on the web. It's an amazing thing!
Great way to put it, Dawn. And Bubelah's right - I have read a lot of books on wealth but I've probably still only put about 1% of those ideas into action. A lot of that knowledge lodges itself into the "dream" section of the brain rather than the "action" section. I am trying to quit reading more "wealth building" info and start putting those ideas into wealth building ACTION myself, because it's awfully easy to read and awfully hard to do. To quote from The Science of Getting Rich (yes, I know, I'm doing what I just preached against :) ):
"Thinking in a certain way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific thinkers meet shipwreck — the failure to connect thought with personal action."
I wrote that in one of my novels a few years back (no prizes for naming the novel). I still think it succinctly summarizes how we are bound by the limits in what we believe we can accomplish. It's not necessarily due to the lack of effort so much as in where to focus that effort, and how to take the successive steps to reach that goal.