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As I’ve mentioned many times, my humble bathroom scale can be quite the honesty tool. But even though it has all of these fancy readouts and features, I have to take the data with a grain of salt.
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Purveyors of Ponzi Schemes and other scams rely on FOMO to reel in the constant flow of new investors. These new investors don’t want to miss out. We see FOMO manifest in markets of all kinds. From stocks to commodities to real estate, misled investors chase illusory gains.
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While you can’t buy more time, you can rent, lease, or give less of it away. The less you surrender, the more you have to enjoy. It’s kinda like that old fable about the ant and the grasshopper. If you are facing a winter of debt, you may want to start acting more like the ant. While it’s sexier to live like the grasshopper in summer, the ant has it made in the shade the minute the weather turns.
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Funny enough, it turns out that many of the world’s most famous and wealthiest entrepreneurs never attended college or dropped out. This list includes such luminaries as: Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gates. These billionaires were all too busy starting and scaling successful businesses to, as Mark Twain famously quipped, “let schooling interfere with *their* education.”
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“Yeah, I know, but…” I rewound the video, watched it again, and then the message sank in. That’s precisely what I was/am trying to do. That’s what so many of us are trying to do. We are stuck. Bogged down by our own baggage, all that crap we’ve accumulated and carry with us all our lives.