The short hand: Life is 98% your reactions to the 10% of shit you never saw coming but life has a way of repeating patterns.
Mindset is important. There’s going to be shit that happens. There’s going to be problems you didn’t see happen and things you saw but ignored.
Accept when you were wrong and learn from your shit. Don’t repeat it unless you want to pretend your dumb and have a habit of drinking self pity with a side of jack Daniel’s.
Yes. You can control your proception to the output and input stimuli of people fucking with you.
It took me twenty plus years to finally take a laugh at myself and not give a fuck when I don’t have to give a fuck. I like control. I like being the master of my emotions and reactions. Accept reality but don’t get judgemental on yourself and others. We’re human.
What if I’m full of shit on this topic? Then spit out the bone and cew on the meat. Think on it.
Just finished listening to the book and I have thoughts. I highly recommend the book for ages 10-40. Overall a good book and helpful in teaching basic financial discipline and budget mindset.
I got to this book late and some of the principles I have learned by experience or observations of highly effective productive people.
My favorite chapter is the luckiest man in babylon.
The jest of the book is parables of stories to illustrate how to grow, maintain and advance yourself in wealth.
The takeaways. I have two.
1.”Where the determination is the way can be found.”
It is not enough to desire to have shit or cash. You have to have a determination. A will of Iron that there is no other way but to push forward and defeat or win over the enemy before you. Debt. Procrastination. Lack of Motivation.
Only when you have a determination then can be open to seeing a way or solution to defeating overcoming the challenges of gaining wealth or fearing yourself from slave mindset or en debted slavery.
Every man has to make a determination on what type of man they are. A slave or a free man. What class do you fit in?
2. Luck is found or created when you learn to enjoy working and mastering a skill.
When you make working your friend lady luck comes looking for you. Opportunities come looking for you and wealth is a by product of a determination to use work as a means to rise a step above the rest.
The principles of wealth are old and simple. It isn’t at a dice roll or at a gambling table. It’s 40 hrs a week at the day job, four hours a day at the side hustle and two hours a day studying your craft and pushing yourself to get to the top so that you can get two weeks at the beach with your girl and not worry about whether or not the bills will get paid.
No words really describe that feeling you get knowing your complaints are bullshit when your OG that been in the game long to show you, you ain’t shit. Your mouthing off about this ain’t fair, it’s impossible. OG’s just watching then he’s had enough of your shit and shows you what a fucking OG’s super power is experience, practice and fucking balls.
OG don’t say shit. His answer is to get that shit done like he’s done a hundred times before.
