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Lesson 6: How to Get Started

Finally, we’ll end with tips on how to get started on your path to building wealth:

1. Need a reason greater than reality.

Find a deep reason you want to succeed. This is usually a combination of “wants” and “don’t wants.”

Examples: “I don’t want to work all my life. I don’t like being an employee. I hated that my dad missed my football games since he was obsessing about his career. I want to be free to travel the world when I’m young. I want control over my time.”

If you don’t have a strong reason, you won’t make it. It will sound like too much work.

2. Actively choose to be rich and think every day.

Ask, what would a rich person do in this situation?

Invest in educating yourself.

3. Choose friends carefully. Consciously make effort to learn from them.

Don’t seek people for their money. Seek them for their knowledge.

Find someone who has done what you want to do. Take them to lunch.

Don’t listen to frightened people who always advice caution or are pessimistic. They drag you down.

Funnily, rich people have friends who ask them for jobs or a loan, but rarely to ask them how they made money.

4. Master a formula (a way to make money) and then learn a new one.