Is Your Thinking Keeping You Poor? by Douglas Kruger

Author:Douglas Kruger
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-77609-114-0
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2016-07-12T16:00:00+00:00

11. The rich did not think like the people around them – they thought like the people above them

If you think like the people around you, you will remain at that level. Communal thinking created that level.

US motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously asserted that we are only as successful as the median of the five people with whom we spend the most time. The idea is that we are greatly influenced by the nature of thinking typical to our ‘tribe’, which forms our thought community. Based on this notion, let me ask you a question: How wealthy – or, in broader terms, how successful – are the five people to whom you are closest?

In The Top 10 Distinctions between Entrepreneurs and Employees, author Keith Cameron Smith writes, ‘My mentor Nido Quebein is a successful entrepreneur, author, and professional speaker who owns multiple companies. He had a very wise mother. She told Nido, “Son, if you want to be great, then you must walk side by side and hand in hand with great people. If you want to be happy, then be around happy people. If you want to be a drunk, then hang around drunks. If you want to be rich, then find out what poor people do and don’t do that!”’

I agree, and like to use the Escape from Khayelitsha analogy to illustrate this point.

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