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Getting rich is having instead of being. Dumb people underthink.

beachstartup 10y ago
no, being rich is having. in order to get rich, you must do. many smart people overthink, constantly, and to a fault. it usually manifests in the form of 'what if something goes wrong???' and spirals from there. any rich person will tell you, things go wrong constantly, and at the worst possible time. the only important thing is your confidence in your ability to fix things when they break.
- Fnoord 10y ago
  > it usually manifests in the form of 'what if something goes wrong???' and spirals from there. That is because we compare to the successful rich only, not all those who tried to become rich and utterly failed. This is just masculine vs feminine thinking. Or VC versus slow growth. Or the way we nurture children in the West vs cats, or in Africa. Or quality vs quantity. You never hear about all the times people prayed to $diety and it didn't help. You never hear about all those people who went to Stanford and didn't graduate. You never hear about all those people who made a startup and failed. OK, you do (on the latter, here), but it takes courage, shame, and selfishness. PS: You might wanna use some capital letters at the start of a sentence.
  - beachstartup 10y ago
    i swear all you trolls read from the same exact playbook. "nobody hears about the failures"? really? i hear about plenty of failures all around me. i see restaurants shutting down left and right. i see people having mental breakdowns, public freakouts, people drop out of school. marriages fall apart, houses get repossessed, stock markets crash, people go bankrupt, even commit suicide. startups failing and people not getting rich is honestly the least, most insignificant of all of life's failures. but so what? so just do nothing with your life? never try anything? grow up.
    - Fnoord 10y ago
      > so just do nothing with your life? never try anything? That's not the point. The point is that many fail, the success / failure ratio is low. Period. No need to be judgmental past that. Or resort to namecalling. If you think someone is trolling. Don't reply. Ignore them. Heck, report them.

no, being rich is having. in order to get rich, you must do. many smart people overthink, constantly, and to a fault. it usually manifests in the form of 'what if something goes wrong???' and spirals from there. any rich person will tell you, things go wrong constantly, and at the worst possible time. the only important thing is your confidence in your ability to fix things when they break.

Fnoord 10y ago
> it usually manifests in the form of 'what if something goes wrong???' and spirals from there. That is because we compare to the successful rich only, not all those who tried to become rich and utterly failed. This is just masculine vs feminine thinking. Or VC versus slow growth. Or the way we nurture children in the West vs cats, or in Africa. Or quality vs quantity. You never hear about all the times people prayed to $diety and it didn't help. You never hear about all those people who went to Stanford and didn't graduate. You never hear about all those people who made a startup and failed. OK, you do (on the latter, here), but it takes courage, shame, and selfishness. PS: You might wanna use some capital letters at the start of a sentence.
- beachstartup 10y ago
  i swear all you trolls read from the same exact playbook. "nobody hears about the failures"? really? i hear about plenty of failures all around me. i see restaurants shutting down left and right. i see people having mental breakdowns, public freakouts, people drop out of school. marriages fall apart, houses get repossessed, stock markets crash, people go bankrupt, even commit suicide. startups failing and people not getting rich is honestly the least, most insignificant of all of life's failures. but so what? so just do nothing with your life? never try anything? grow up.
  - Fnoord 10y ago
    > so just do nothing with your life? never try anything? That's not the point. The point is that many fail, the success / failure ratio is low. Period. No need to be judgmental past that. Or resort to namecalling. If you think someone is trolling. Don't reply. Ignore them. Heck, report them.