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3 Ways “How to Get Rich” Tips Are Leaving You Poorer
Break the cycle by doing these things instead
I am sick of seeing people tell the world how they made XXXX dollars and how they’re ready to share their secret sauce with everyone in the world to simply copy.
“Here’s the exact steps I used to…”
“I made $XXXX in 6 months and you can too…”
Every article of this kind has vulnerable humans like you and me clicking on them in the hope that this will finally be the answer to all financial problems. That, however, is never the case.
What these tips end up doing instead is leaving you poorer in more ways than one. Here’s how.
Self-worth — comparison is your biggest enemy
I had a friend who got his annual bonus a couple of weeks ago. When he heard the amount he’d received, he was reasonably happy with the one-off cash inflow.
Suddenly, another colleague of his called him to announce his own bonus. That number was much higher than my friend’s. And suddenly, my friend was miserable and felt rather bad about what he’d got.
That’s just human nature. We tend to compare — and our joy of owning a toy vanishes when we see someone else with a bigger toy.
