Why are people broke ? The answer in one picture

[Deusexmachinex]

Ok a lot of businessmen out there are sharks. Ok business is a dog eat dog world and without law to regulate it it can really turns into evil (its actually because of human nature). Now at the other side of the mirror it's not only society's fault. I really realise how mediocre and broke most people are when I see this:

I think about this each time I hear someone bitching about their boss,their life, their coworker. When they say " I don't have enough money to buy organic food " or " I don't have time to go at the gym " or " I don't have time to read books ".

Those people have an excuse for litteraly EVERY SINGLE THING !

Man If you don't know what to do with your time go do some CHARITY. Each hours that you've spent losing your soul playing Bubble Island / looking at The Voice, could have been better invested into SLEEPING. Go back to bed an hour earlier instead of that ! You'll do better the next day you'll have more energy.

Most people are so negative this is crazy. This is really the breaking point between a successful guy , and a pathetic person.( Remember successful doesnt necessarly means lots of money.)

A successful person whether gives you good mood, good energy, praticle advices, positivity, or, if he's busy or if you're a timewaster, he just doesnt talk with you ! PERIOD.

Why would a successful guy spend one minute of his precious time puting somebody down ?

When you meet a guy whose main occupation is to bitch and put down people, you immediately know that he's a frustrated person. Now everybody can be in a bad mood sometimes. But when it becomes a habit, you know the guy's a loser. Even if he has money.

I hear those people who gave up on their life so long ago that their new hobby is to spy eachother till they can find something to gossip about.

One of my friend recently told me he found a job at mcdonald and can't take it anymore. I told him dude you want another job try to stand out. You have plenty of free time why dont you try to catch the manager of X store at the end of the day ? why dont you make yourself an online CV ? You'd immediately stand out from 99% of all the losers who come at the job interview drunk, dressed like shit, smelling like weed and with a big a$$ ad on their head who says " LAZY LOSER ". Why not go to the interview with a suit ? Ok its a lot to ask for a dead end job but at least you could have something else that mcdonald that you hate to much.

The guy said: " you serious ? haha ... nooooo wayyyy " (he was stone).
(Now you may ask me why do I lose my time with this guy , be sure I have good reasons)

So thats it. Most people are LAZY. They just want society / life / someone to gives them permission. To tell them what to do " Do a, then b, then c, then d, if it works you take all the glory, if it doesnt you can blame me for giving you a bad map".

That's why I end up deleting 90% of my " friends " on FB.

Bottom line:​

1-CUT THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR LIFE
2-FOCUS ON STUFF THAT MATTERS
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Wish you guys the best, thanks for reading.

PS: Don't forget to hit the like button if you appreciated my rant !

 

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[NVious]

I think of it as ignorance more than anything.

To refuse to do something that's ROI is INSANE relative to energy put is just stupid.

There are many ways around going to the gym, reading books or even starting your own business in seeing a lot of the benefits one gets from these activities if done correctly, but due to their 1D paradigm (ignorant) and the fact that humans evolved in states where homeostasis and energy conservation was necessary is why a lot have so many issues today.

 

[100k]

 

[Deusexmachinex]

Lol could have used this picture instead of mine.

 

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[theag]

 

[Imgal]

Facebook - the zapper of time and soul.

Honestly stopping using Facebook from a personal perspective has more of a mental impact than I could have thought. I never spent loads of time on there, but when I did the environment would be one of mostly passive aggressive statements by someone aimed at someone else, another person moaning about something awful in their life or people essentially just wasting their time posting quotes and funny images all day. If that all works for them then awesome, happy for them all, but honestly it's that thing or being the sum of the five people around you and the longer I spent on there the more I felt pulled down by the whole atmosphere and could feel negativity creeping into how I was thinking about things when on there.

So cold turkey. All gone. No more Facebook and I don't miss it one bit.

 

[DeletedUser394]

Welcome to the FFF!! (F*ck fake friends).

 

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[Gorilla]

People are comfortable with their routine and consciously/sub-consciously are scared to break it and try different things. It's easy to blame everyone and thing besides ones self.

 

[DeletedUser394]

It's a broken picture link on my end.

 

[Supa]

Some time ago the GF of one of my best friends sat next to me and was playing around with some kind of photo app on her phone.. When she suddenly said "man how boring must they have been to create such an app?" and I was like "WTF did you just say after downloading their app and playing around with it for almost an hour?!" I'm not sure if she understood that I tried to tell her that she must have a boring life if she got time for playing around with a silly app for an hour.. And not the guys who put their effort into something that helps people like you to procrastinate even more.. But I think she didn't even really think about it, because the last time we did a barbecue she ran inside because her phone rang.. It wasn't an incoming call, it was a farmville reminder...

 

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[Fox]

No Facebook Apps on my phone or IPad.
Leechblocker on my laptop with Facebook limited to 30 minutes total a day.

That takes care of that.

 

[AgainstAllOdds]

I agreed with all of you about Facebook, so I never had one. Then I went out to Silicon Valley. Everyone there used Facebook.

I told them I didn't want one since most Facebook feeds are a waste of time. Then they showed me their feeds. There was actual value there. I was confused.

So I made a Facebook, added 40 people that I respect. Of that, unfollowed 10-15 that post crap. And now I'm left with about 25 people that post stuff I'm interested in. It's like a reddit, but with smart people that I preselected.

I don't post anything yet, but if anyone here wants to be friends on Facebook then let me know. I now don't consider it a rolodex for friends, but a medium. In my case: a medium for quality content curated by a hand-picked group of quality individuals.

 

[Mattie]

I suppose this follows suit. This was in my facebook feed just now. Now that's really going to get you somewhere in life. Negative yes. I don't think they get the point they're making themselves dumber by the minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=179&v=tVJC0LJTYZc

 

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[Leo Hendrix]

For some people sometimes it could be cognitive dissonance.

 

[LifeTransformer]

I used Facebook before......

(That could be one of those quotes years from now couldn't it? No? Oh well! I still don't bother.)

 

[sija1]

Life experience has a lot to do with this. If I asked you, what is your life story, there would be a lot of people who would talk about some struggles they had and one big struggle that changed them forever and pushed them into the unknown in search of answers.

When we are born, we become a part of the society. As we grow up, we want to meet people, have friends, so we do everything others do in order to fit in. We fall into same traps, into the same circle of life - working-going to school-putting our free time into forgetting the first two (this is usually accomplished by new experiences like getting drunk for the first time or older ones like watching movies and playing games). Then we grow up ignorant as we where and no clicks happen, we continue to follow the same path, not being happy with our lives and finding some comfort in consumerism.

Why does Hollywood make so many movies? Because when an average person comes home exhausted, unhappy and irritated from work, school or anywhere else, he/she doesn't want to think about his/hers own life. Watching a movie and leaving this world for an hour and a half is a quick fix.

We, people in general, feel so much lost but we don't acknowledge it. We don't accept it. We seek pleasures in drugs, sex, games, relationships (not those based on love, but those based on fear of being alone) and in fabricating perfect lives on social networks so we could get some recognition. I talk from past experiences, because I did all of those things. None of them worked and I still felt lost. Then I started looking in the books.

The following is an explanation based on Third Circle Theory:
An individual needs to master or understand 8 elements in order to set himself on the path of achievement: Environment, Belief, Choice, Fear, Confidence, Goals, Entourage & Time (for details read the book).

By doing this, the view an individual has on society changes and he understands that if he wants to excel, he must go further and seek answers.

These answer seekers are you fellow Fastlaners. You seek answers to better yourself. You seek answers to better your life. Those who found them, have a life they want and deserve. Those who didn't, it is not lost. If you keep pushing, that just proves how you became capable of seeing through the society's BS.

If you use Facebook daily, here is a little challenge: For a full month, only use FB messaging to talk to your closest friends (if needed). Don't look at your news feed, not even for one second. After a month, come back and scroll down the news feed. Are those people on your friend list still the same, with same types of posts, problems and same way of thinking? Now ask yourself how much did you change in the last month?

*This post is generalized. Exceptions exist everywhere.

 

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[mws87]

So thats it. Most people are LAZY. They just want society / life / someone to gives them permission. To tell them what to do " Do a, then b, then c, then d, if it works you take all the glory, if it doesnt you can blame me for giving you a bad map".

I used to get upset over how lazy people can be, then I realized that the masses of lazy = more opportunity for those who aren't.

That's why I end up deleting 90% of my " friends " on FB.

I contemplated deleting most of my pseudo/occasional friends from FB, then I realized I'd only have like 2 people left, haha. Dumped the whole thing all together. Just have a dummy page now for managing pages.

 

[Perry Rico]

Wanna add something. Why is the world poor!!!

People are poor because they spend 2 hours of non-sense in social media a day, and 3 hours in candy crash a day.

Now if we have 1, 000, 000 people doing this in the entire world(little low calculation) that is 5, 000, 000 hours work wasted.
The world could have used this useless hours to build bridges, buildings, farm agriculture, etc.

And all of thse supports the initial claim above.

 

[Mattie]

one big struggle that changed them forever and pushed them into the unknown in search of answers.

That one big event pushes them to make the changes and when the avalanche comes crashing down. Some of them aren't at that point yet. And when it does happen for some they keep making the same mistakes over and over again. I'm not sure why some of us do wake up and smell the coffee, but I know some die never getting it, and never learn from their mistakes.

 

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[BlakeIC]

Hmmm a thread complaining about people complaining & being lazy

Why does it really bother all of you that these people are lazy? All it is doing is creating more opportunity for us to become successful

 

[DeletedUser394]

Hmmm a thread complaining about people complaining & being lazy

Why does it really bother all of you that these people are lazy? All it is doing is creating more opportunity for us to become successful

Lol, in truth I didn't read OP. Found this line funny.

Why would a successful guy spend one minute of his precious time puting somebody down ?

 

[sija1]

That one big event pushes them to make the changes and when the avalanche comes crashing down. Some of them aren't at that point yet. And when it does happen for some they keep making the same mistakes over and over again. I'm not sure why some of us do wake up and smell the coffee, but I know some die never getting it, and never learn from their mistakes.

Fear. It is probably the most important emotion and the biggest one. There is not a single human being on this planet whose life isn't affected by fear to some extent. It can be attached to anything, it can grow, motivate, cause an adrenaline rush, anything. It is like a living entity that lives inside us, but we are so used to it, that we don't acknowledge it anymore.

What do I mean when I say it affects every individual:
- If I drop college, I'm afraid my parents will be mad
- If I drive 180 mph, I'm afraid I will die
- I fear I will fail
- My biggest fear is that the day I die, I will look back and see how life passed by with me missing every single opportunity (this is me)
- Different kinds of phobias
- I'm afraid to walk alone at 3 am
- I'm afraid something will happen to my children
- I would take a week of but I need the money (fear of consequences)

It can be literally anything. Some fears have bigger effect than the others. Some of them we accept as normal and others we try to control or hide.

 

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[Mattie]

Fear. It is probably the most important emotion and the biggest one. There is not a single human being on this planet whose life isn't affected by fear to some extent. It can be attached to anything, it can grow, motivate, cause an adrenaline rush, anything. It is like a living entity that lives inside us, but we are so used to it, that we don't acknowledge it anymore.

What do I mean when I say it affects every individual:
- If I drop college, I'm afraid my parents will be mad
- If I drive 180 mph, I'm afraid I will die
- I fear I will fail
- My biggest fear is that the day I die, I will look back and see how life passed by with me missing every single opportunity (this is me)
- Different kinds of phobias
- I'm afraid to walk alone at 3 am
- I'm afraid something will happen to my children
- I would take a week of but I need the money (fear of consequences)

It can be literally anything. Some fears have bigger effect than the others. Some of them we accept as normal and others we try to control or hide.

Personally most of them I run into are conditioned to fear and choke in fear because they're raised by alcoholics and drug addicts, and have been in constant anxiety and fear. The survival mode not knowing what's going to happen next. And while many may have wonderful parents, others don't. I think I learned that growing up people assuming it's a nice wonderful shiny world. Fortunately, it isn't for many people. And I suppose that is what keeps people in business in the self-help industry because people want to figure out how to get out of hell. lol

 

[hellolin]

Another thing that we have been told that's all wrong is that we all think if we do things like a, b, and c, then d is going to happen, it is the deterministic model. But in reality the world works in a probabilistic model, means that if I do a, b, and c, then the likely hood of d happening is 60%, if I do a,b,c and d, then the chance of e happening is 80%...such and such. This is why data science makes sense in marketing today, people are using big data to research trends and probabilities of something happening in a particular setting, if they world all works in a deterministic model, this kind of big data analysis wouldn't work at all. (I got this knowledge from the book "Bold" by Peter Diamond).

 

[sija1]

Personally most of them I run into are conditioned to fear and choke in fear because they're raised by alcoholics and drug addicts, and have been in constant anxiety and fear. The survival mode not knowing what's going to happen next. And while many may have wonderful parents, others don't. I think I learned that growing up people assuming it's a nice wonderful shiny world. Fortunately, it isn't for many people. And I suppose that is what keeps people in business in the self-help industry because people want to figure out how to get out of hell. lol

Everyone is dealt different cards. It's all about learning to play your hand.

Self-help industry is great and really useful when you take it for what it is: information. Most people have trouble changing their mindsets because they see things as being true or false (fixed mindset). Every advice is just another piece of information. Information needs processing. But most don't take the time to process it. They get the information, then act on it without thinking.
The perfect example would be the book The Secret. This is based upon some individuals I personally know. People are told to think positively and they will get life changing results. Acting upon this information without processing it and questioning it may result in even bigger problems, because once the law of attraction fails, the belief about power of positive thinking changes. When the information is processed logically, questioning it's validity and mixing it with other information and experiences reveals one thing: positive thinking can indeed make a change. Once you act and think positively in the same direction, it is much easier to create momentum. Your belief in success is created and enforced by positive thinking.

 

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[Deusexmachinex]

Everyone is dealt different cards. It's all about learning to play your hand.

Self-help industry is great and really useful when you take it for what it is: information. Most people have trouble changing their mindsets because they see things as being true or false (fixed mindset). Every advice is just another piece of information. Information needs processing. But most don't take the time to process it. They get the information, then act on it without thinking.
The perfect example would be the book The Secret. This is based upon some individuals I personally know. People are told to think positively and they will get life changing results. Acting upon this information without processing it and questioning it may result in even bigger problems, because once the law of attraction fails, the belief about power of positive thinking changes. When the information is processed logically, questioning it's validity and mixing it with other information and experiences reveals one thing: positive thinking can indeed make a change. Once you act and think positively in the same direction, it is much easier to create momentum. Your belief in success is created and enforced by positive thinking.

Totally agree. IMO the main problem with self help is that there is a lot of BS in it. Any serious self help thing should being with this warning: " READING WILL NEVER REPLACE ACTION. YOU LEARN TO PLAY BASKETBALL BY PLAYING, NOT BY READING ". Because what happen is that people get trapped into the reading thing. They think the change can happen in their sit. " If I read this guru's book NOW im gonna be a successful ! ". What they want is something like in matrix: you dwnload some awesomeness in your brain and BOOM, you're awesome ! Any book that doesnt stress that action is 90% of the process is full of shit. Any book written by somebody who hasnt been in business, or who aint rich already, is full of shit. Anybody whose main business is to get rich by selling how to get rich is BS IMO.

That's the main strengh of MJ's book. The guy started a real business and THEN made his book. I remember him saying " I already own the lambo. I'm not going to buy it by selling this book " . Now you can discuss what he says, but you can't discuss his credibility. I also like felix's book "how to get rich" for this same reason: the guy is already rich. His main business is NOT to sell self help.

 

[sija1]

Totally agree. IMO the main problem with self help is that there is a lot of BS in it. Any serious self help thing should being with this warning: " READING WILL NEVER REPLACE ACTION. YOU LEARN TO PLAY BASKETBALL BY PLAYING, NOT BY READING ". Because what happen is that people get trapped into the reading thing. They think the change can happen in their sit. " If I read this guru's book NOW im gonna be a successful ! ". What they want is something like in matrix: you dwnload some awesomeness in your brain and BOOM, you're awesome ! Any book that doesnt stress that action is 90% of the process is full of shit. Any book written by somebody who hasnt been in business, or who aint rich already, is full of shit. Anybody whose main business is to get rich by selling how to get rich is BS IMO.

That's the main strengh of MJ's book. The guy started a real business and THEN made his book. I remember him saying " I already own the lambo. I'm not going to buy it by selling this book " . Now you can discuss what he says, but you can't discuss his credibility. I also like felix's book "how to get rich" for this same reason: the guy is already rich. His main business is NOT to sell self help.

There is a lot of BS in everything. Eventually, it doesn't matter what is inside the book - but how you approach it. I can't stress this enough, it really needs to be approached just like information. Piece by piece, sentence by sentence. This is something I learned recently and I've been approaching all information like this ever since and now I really see it differently. I believe there are a lot of kinds of financial and self help gurus. It is a fact. But I also believe that I could take a piece of the information they have to offer and process it and even apply it if I find it's worth it. Now I am not sure that I am explaining this correctly without sounding like some guru obsessed freak. It's not that. I agree with what you said. I'll give an example to explain it better.
Lets take MJ and Tai Lopez. A lot of people will say this or that about Tai Lopez, question his credibility etc. I won't mind listening to his podcasts, because IT COULD contain a single piece of information I need or could eventually find useful. However, if I need to refer some content to a friend, it will be MJ because every piece of information he has offered, I find highly useful and mind changing. Also, by reading through BS you become more and more capable of looking through BS right away.

Why people get trapped into reading? Most will say fear. Yes, fear is a big factor. But there is another reason also. Business involves countless skills or money for outsourcing and it also involves tremendous personal strength and willpower. Lets take another example.

Self help
Lets say you want to build your social skills. You read a book on gestures. Some articles on eye contact. You ask couple of friends how they do it. You read couple of books on different things that surround social skills. You're good to go, only things left may be fear.

Business
I'll take app development as an example and just some basic skills needed: design, coding, marketing, discipline. You need to learn coding to do. You need to be able to design a nice interface in an overcrowded market. Marketing can be built while doing, but having some insight is preferable. Discipline is the hardest one. You need to have a proper mindset to have discipline. And to have a proper mindset, you need a ton of personal skills. You need to know yourself. What are your strengths? How to use them? What are your weaknesses? How to use them? Or turn them into strengths? Here the number of factors is massive because you are taking the journey towards one of the biggest accomplishments in life.


So people can be stuck into reading because of fear, analysis paralysis, not having an idea or simply because their approach is to build a skill set and then everything. Eventually, everything comes down to mindset and personal power. These people need to evaluate their inner state and kick themselves by doing it into building business.

 

[Imgal]

I believe there are a lot of kinds of financial and self help gurus. It is a fact. But I also believe that I could take a piece of the information they have to offer and process it and even apply it if I find it's worth it.

I think the problem is that the word "guru" has been given so much power by society and as such creates some of the problem in people being able to adopt the tactics and strategies involved. Ignoring the sometime shady world of self help that will only tell you so much so you buy their 94 other courses and books, the reality is that most people look at someone like Tony Robbins say something simple like "you need to talk to yourself more positively" and follow along and do it with him on video / audio / book format, but then when they're on their own can't seem to do it because he's not there to hold their hand.. despite it actually being very simple. We put people into positions of authority and then create such a "them" and "us"divide we literally tell each other we can't do it. It's a bit like Usain Bolt telling you that he gets his explosive power from doing nothing more than 10 star jumps a day, but no-one actually doing it because this is someone at the top of their game doing it so it can't really be that easy can it?!?

Change can also get too tied to the person instigating it and if you're relying on someone else to guide you through that it just won't work. When I coach clients I never attempt to guide them or work them how to improve. They tell me what they want from their lives, I go and get my toolbox, point to this, that and the other tool and tell them that is what they're going to need to use. I give them the basic instructions, but then its up to them to start developing the system that uses them. Sure I will come in and tell them they're actually using the tool the wrong way round or have they tried this and the other, but they never get the "Secret" or "Answer" from me because it won't be their answer. It's mine (I'm not in anyway trying to make out I'm any kind of expert here...)

 

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[sija1]

I think the problem is that the word "guru" has been given so much power by society and as such creates some of the problem in people being able to adopt the tactics and strategies involved. Ignoring the sometime shady world of self help that will only tell you so much so you buy their 94 other courses and books, the reality is that most people look at someone like Tony Robbins say something simple like "you need to talk to yourself more positively" and follow along and do it with him on video / audio / book format, but then when they're on their own can't seem to do it because he's not there to hold their hand.. despite it actually being very simple. We put people into positions of authority and then create such a "them" and "us"divide we literally tell each other we can't do it. It's a bit like Usain Bolt telling you that he gets his explosive power from doing nothing more than 10 star jumps a day, but no-one actually doing it because this is someone at the top of their game doing it so it can't really be that easy can it?!?

This is exactly the reason why I keep saying that information needs to be approached as such. When you decide what to do with that information, then you do not need a holding hand. Be your own self help guru by taking valuable pieces every one has to offer. Today is easier than ever to do anything. We live in the age of information and instead of using our cell phones as a tool to enrich ourselves, we as a society use it to disconnect from everything. Sometimes I want to punch people when I'm reading something useful that can benefit me and I hear the comment: "You young people can't stop staring at your Facebooks, Twitters and Snapchats."

Change can also get too tied to the person instigating it and if you're relying on someone else to guide you through that it just won't work. When I coach clients I never attempt to guide them or work them how to improve. They tell me what they want from their lives, I go and get my toolbox, point to this, that and the other tool and tell them that is what they're going to need to use. I give them the basic instructions, but then its up to them to start developing the system that uses them. Sure I will come in and tell them they're actually using the tool the wrong way round or have they tried this and the other, but they never get the "Secret" or "Answer" from me because it won't be their answer. It's mine (I'm not in anyway trying to make out I'm any kind of expert here...)

I like your approach and that is what an expert would do. Helping others is teaching them to do it on their own, not becoming their mommy. People need the switch from fixed mindset model to growth mindset model. Then and only then the sky becomes the limit. Everything else can easily be learned after, because it becomes a fact that every experience is a new opportunity, every book is a new information and every focused action will eventually lead to a new accomplishment.

 

[Deusexmachinex]

They tell me what they want from their lives, I go and get my toolbox, point to this, that and the other tool and tell them that is what they're going to need to use.

And thats the first thing i'm looking for when i read self help / blog / books. Is there any actionable advices there ? Or is it just general advices with cute metaphor and story telling , telling how the lion never let the prey go away or other non-sense ?

Toolbox is the word. I need tools. Not stories or metaphors about animals. Now those can be a good motivation, but they should never be the main material.