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If you truly want it, you will find answers to this questions and let actions follow. If you only ask those questions and do nothing to reach your goal, you won

• aetherson 9y ago
  But he promised me. -- I understood the point of his statement. It was a stupid statement because in fact it's not enough to "truly" want something -- it's helpful but not enough. It was an insulting statement because it sets him up to tell anyone who fails that they didn't truly want it. There's little more offensive than someone telling someone else that he knows their mind better than they do. But the thing that I was really objecting to wasn't the insult or the stupidity, it was the rhetorical flourish of "promising." As obviously he has nothing on the line here, and if anyone was dumb enough to believe him, and they failed, he'd be out exactly nothing.
  • xaedes 9y ago
    Yea, that is hardly something that can be promised. Actually I didn't recognize that he stated it as a promise on first reading. Hm.. interesting, you made me notice that in my interpretation "truly wanting" something implies letting it follow actions. And not letting it follow actions implies not truly wanting it.
• mikebenfield 9y ago
  Then how different making money is from every other endeavor I'm familiar with. In everything else people do, from playing a video game to getting a graduate degree to playing sports, there is the possibility of failure. But apparently it is inevitable that you will make a ton of money. Unless, apparently, you don't want to.