Keep an Open Mind

Schon im kleinen kann man oftmals beobachten, wie die eigene Wahrnehmung darüber bestimmt, ob etwas gut oder schlecht, vorteilhaft oder nicht vorteilhaft ist. Wer kennt es nicht – ob man etwas als Chance oder Last betrachtet hängt oft von der eigenen Einstellung, manchmal sogar der Tagesform ab.

Hinter dem folgenden Denkansatz steckt daher sehr viel mehr, als die meisten wahrhaben möchten, vermute ich:

[...] T. Harv Eker says that some of the best advice he ever got when he was poor was from a rich man who once told him, “if you’re not as successful as you’d like to be, there’s something you don’t know.”

The wisdom in those words is subtle, but powerful. It sums up the fact that poor and middle class people often get stuck in a particular way of thinking. For one reason or another, they’ve closed themselves off to anything outside their comfort zone. They might not admit it, but deep down, they’ve become comfortable with their financial position.

The strongest evidence for this concept I can think of is a phenomenon that often occurs to lottery winners. It’s fairly common for someone to win a multi-million dollar lottery only to be back to broke or worse within a few years. The takeaway is that money isn’t what makes you rich, it’s your mindset. (Quelle)