Wealth File #17
Rich people constantly learn and grow.
Poor people think they already know.
By T Harv Eker
At the beginning of my live seminars, I introduce people to
what I call “the three most dangerous words in the English
language.” Those words are “I know that.” So how do you
know if you know something? Simple. If you live it, you know
it. Otherwise, you heard about it, you read about it, or you talk
about it, but you don’t know it. Put bluntly, if you’re not really
rich and really happy, there’s a good chance you still have
some things to learn about money, success, and life.
As I explained at the beginning of this book, during my
“broke” days, I was fortunate to get some advice from a multimillionaire
friend who had some compassion for my plight.
Remember what he said to me: “Harv, if you’re not as successful
as you’d like to be, there’s something you don’t know.”
Fortunately, I took his suggestion to heart and went from
being a “know-it-all” to a “learn-it-all.” From that moment on,
everything changed.
Poor people are often trying to prove that they’re right.
They put on a mask as if they’ve got it all figured out, and it’s
just some stroke of bad luck or a temporary glitch in the
universe that has them broke or struggling.
One of my more famous lines is “You can be right or you
can be rich, but you can’t be both.” Being “right” means having
to hold on to your old ways of thinking and being. Unfortunately,
these are the ways that got you exactly where you
are now. This philosophy also pertains to happiness, in that
“you can be right or you can be happy.”
There’s a saying that author and speaker Jim Rohn uses that
makes perfect sense here: “If you keep doing what you’ve
always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.” You
already know “your” way, what you need is to know some new
ways. That’s why I wrote this book. My goal is to give you
some new mental files to add to the ones you already have.
New files mean new ways of thinking, new actions, and
therefore new results.
That’s why it’s imperative you continue to learn and grow.
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