Can you learn think and act like a multi millionaire or billionaire. Or is it like trying to think and act like a psycho or a world champion and you just can’t learn this shit if you’re not born with it?

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You can but it won’t make you rich. Napoleon Hill was full of it. You can’t just think your way to riches.

You have to actually make the money. With sums in the $1mm ballpark, it is possible to become a millionaire largely through changing how your mind works. This is because it’s not hard at all to find a job or self-employment with the potential to make that much in a short amount of time. In fact, if you don’t change your mind, then there’s a good chance you’ll fritter it away on meaningless stuff long before you ever achieve financial freedom.

Somewhere around $3–5mm, the calculus changes. Fewer and fewer jobs have that kind of earning potential. The ones that used to slowly went away and nowadays if you want to make that kind of money, you need to either rise through the corporate ranks to upper management, or start a business.

This is a whole different level of hard. Corporate advancement is often limited not by how good you are or what you know, but rather who you know. A CEO’s college buddy is more likely to nab a top management spot at many companies than a middle manager who worked their way up the ranks.

Luck matters far more than you’d think, and you can’t think your way to luck. It’s a little better with business, but you can’t get Bill Gates money just by studying Bill Gates.

Instead you must first build a little business. Then you must turn that little business into a small business. Then you must turn that small business into a medium size one. The word we use for this is scaling. It’s really really really really really hard to scale a business, and you can’t learn how to do it just by studying Bezos or Jobs. Because those guys are busy running their billion dollar companies, and you can’t use the lessons of billion dollar companies to operate at smaller scales. That’s a recipe for burning money.