You want to be Rich? Postpone your Happiness
So I
spent some time this weekend reading weird things e.g. on how to become rich. I
must have learned something like if you want to become a rich person then you
must learn to do things that don't make you happy today so that you can do
things that will make you happy later. Simply, learn to postpone pleasure or
something like that. For example, you need to learn to save money other than
spending it or otherwise exercise what they are calling spending sparingly etc.
Whatever that is. Spending makes you happy, no? You may need to choose between
enjoying that bottle of beer with friends today or saving that money for a
tomorrow which you are almost entirely not in control of but if that tomorrow
comes and you had saved then you will be better off and perhaps happier then
because you will have become richer. You will tell me how this is different
from gambling! Game of life. Saving and its cousins like investments are
gambles. Most often, if not always, all that rich people do is simply getting
to know the right time to buy and sell. Ask your shares broker. Thing is. You
gotta gamble your way to riches. If you think I am lying, go purchase a cow in
view of being a milk producer or keep some chicken in view of being a seller of
eggs in the near future. The beauty is that you will get the privilege of
drinking milk and eating eggs from your own farm. But wait, that is only if you
don't want to be rich. If you want to be rich you sell all the milk and the
eggs and save the money. Your biggest gamble is the hope that a chick will grow
into a chicken and a calf into a cow. The risk associated with your big gamble
will take you straight to someone selling insurance policy who's existence is
not only a gamble that people will be so scared of risks as to purchase
policies but that actually chicks and calves will grow into chickens and cows
without dying or suffering something something so as no claims will happen. Etc
etc
You want to be Rich? Postpone your Happiness
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
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December 24, 2018
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