Friday, August 31, 2012

And Now For Something Completely Different: 21 Ways Rich People Think Differently




1 Average people think MONEY is the root of all evil. Rich people believe POVERTY is the root of all evil...

2 Average people think selfishness is a vice. Rich people think selfishness is a virtue. "The rich go out there and try to make themselves happy. They don't try to pretend to save the world," Steve Siebold, author of “How Rich People Think” told Business Insider.  The problem is that middle class people see that as a negative––and it's keeping them poor, he writes.

3 Average people have a lottery mentality. Rich people have an action mentality. "While the masses are waiting to pick the right numbers and praying for prosperity, the great ones are solving problems," Siebold writes.

4  Average people think the road to riches is paved with formal education. Rich people believe in acquiring specific knowledge.

5  Average people see money through the eyes of emotion. Rich people think about money logically.  "An ordinarily smart, well-educated and otherwise successful person can be instantly transformed into a fear-based, scarcity driven thinker whose greatest financial aspiration is to retire comfortably," he writes.

6  Average people earn money doing things they don't love. Rich people follow their passion."To the average person, it looks like the rich are working all the time," Siebold says. "But one of the smartest strategies of the world class is doing what they love and finding a way to get paid for it…."

Read all about it at http://www.businessinsider.com/how-rich-people-think-differently-from-the-poor-2012-8#average-people-think-money-is-the-root-of-all-evil-rich-people-believe-poverty-is-the-root-of-all-evil-1

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