Shortcut to Prosperity: 10 Entrepreneurial Habits and a Roadmap for an Exceptional Career by Mark Hopkins
Author:Mark Hopkins [Hopkins, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781608324309
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
Published: 2012-12-31T14:00:00+00:00
Pursue the Passionate, Avoid the Zombies
Whether we like it or not, we become more like the people we spend the most time with. It’s our human nature, helping us adapt to fit in with the social environment. That powerful instinct can be used for good—or evil. Well, not necessarily evil, but who you choose to spend time with can affect your learning curve and, consequently, how prosperous you become.
Now, I’m not trying to sound elitist. I’m not saying, “Only hang out with rich people and you’ll get rich too.” And I’m not encouraging social climbing for the sake of social climbing. What I am saying is that you should admire the people in your life for their determination, for the knowledge they’ve acquired, for the values they live by, and for their efforts to achieve their own personal vision of prosperity. To be prosperous, you need authentic, meaningful relationships that help you learn about yourself, your world, and how to win. Achieving prosperity can be tough, and it happens a lot faster if you are inspired and are learning the right habits. If you look around at the people in your life and you see a lot of complaining and not a lot of well-planned decisions or focused effort to create a meaningful life, you may need to think about spending time with some different people.
As the song goes, we’ve all got “friends in low places,” and we shouldn’t abandon those friendships. They can be incredibly meaningful to us and keep us connected to who we are. But if you only have friends in low places, it means you’re spending most of your time in low places too, that you are likely developing a “low places” attitude and mindset. That’s not going to help you achieve what you most desire.
In order to learn everything you can to achieve your vision, you need to surround yourself with people who are on fire, people who are well into the Prosperity Cycle. This is true of friends and even romantic relationships, but it’s especially true of colleagues or partners in any of your goals (like an exercise or study partner). The goal is to accelerate learning while making it fun. Being with people you like who are also skilled and prosperous allows you to almost effortlessly develop the same skills that make them successful. The transformation happens through osmosis.
Actually, according to Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, and the rest of the authors who contributed to the book Influencer, a key step in changing our behaviors is changing our minds about those behaviors: whether they are desirable or not, what kinds of outcomes they deliver, how risky they are, and so on. Through extensive research, what the authors found is that the primary way to change minds is through personal experience. If you believe something that isn’t accurate, and then through personal experience discover that your thoughts were wrong, your mind will be changed. The next best thing to personal experience, though, is what the authors call vicarious experience.
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