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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
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Sorry professor. Please don't knock me down to a C. Aren't you the guy who thinks going to college is the way to success? If that was the case 70% of the young population would be successful, including those dirty educated hippies in the occupy movement.
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No, I didn't finish school myself, though I may well go back. I've wanted to be an attorney since I was a little kid, because I love to argue. :) What I said is that most millionaires work at learning so they can advance - either learning in school or on the job. If you're successful in this business, I imagine you invested a lot of time and effort learning.
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Most of the very rich did not do so well in school and did not find it very important.
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The average millionaire reads two non-fiction books per month. The average non-millionaire, one per year. Rich people get and stay rich by educating themselves. (Aside, possibly, from the very few in Hollywood.)
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I can write much better if i took my time but I don't in such cases as long as i can get my ideas across, thats all that matters to me.
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I understand that and probably shouldn't have said anything. That said, HUNDREDS of potential business associates are reading this thread and from it learning who we are.
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And as for small decisions...everything can be traced back. I wouldn't be working online if i didn't get into trouble with the law and was forced by law to not hang out with my friends and needed something else to do. I would never of known how much money there was to be made in adult if not for an email someone i didn't even know sent me after signing up to their mainstream free hosting. Hell if my dad wasn't friends with a guy who was so into computers maybe i never would of had the internet in my home to have the chance to do any of that until much later. Its all connected. None of this was a conscious decision towards anything but its part of what took me to a place where i was working for myself and making much more money than my peers.
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Maybe you wouldn't be working online, maybe you would have gotten here via a different path. In order to be successful in this industry, with this much competition, you invested a lot of time and effort into learning. You invested time, effort, and probably money into building your business. You took smart risks. You built relationships. As that kind of person, willing to do those things, you were eventually going to succeed at whatever you were doing.
If you don't already know that the work you invested and the smart risks you take matter, don't work the rest of the week. It doesn't matter whether you work or not, right? It's all luck?
You are working this week, and probably choosing to put off buying things you want, like that new car, in order to invest in your business for long term success. Other, less successful people are spending their paycheck on rims while you invest yours in content. I think you're making better decisions.
