You tell that to all the trust fund kids who go on to build global businesses? You're way off. Fear is a disabler. Many peer reviewed studies prove this. Stole

You tell that to all the trust fund kids who go on to build global businesses? You're way off. Fear is a disabler. Many peer reviewed studies prove this. Stolen from another comment on this page: >Financial desperation squeezes the cognitive juice right out of you. In 2013, Harvard researchers did a study of how financial stress affects decision making. Denise Cummins, Ph.D. explains their findings in Psychology Today: "When the cost of [a car] repair was increased to $3,000, a very different picture emerged: The cognitive performance of those at the upper end of the income distribution was unaffected by the increase. But those at the lower end suffered a 40% decline! The authors interpreted this to mean that scarcity impaired people’s ability to think clearly. The threat—even an imagined threat—of a large bill made it difficult for poor people to focus on the cognitive tasks at hand." Financial stress impedes human thinking / problem solving. People get consumed by the short term challenges in front of them, and can’t see the big picture. Sources: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/good-thinking/201309/why-having-too-little-leads-bad-decisions http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/good-thinking/201309/why...