A short transcript excerpt from a Dylan Vanas YouTube video arguing that being 'broke' is a mindset rather than strictly a financial state. The speaker contrasts behaviors and expectations of 'broke people' versus successful people—using examples about responsiveness to texts and how busyness changes social expectations.
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Here's the difference between broke people, which, by the way, is a mindset, not a situation. Broke is not how much money you have in your bank account. It's how you operate your life. By now that I'm successful, I'm sorry, I can't text you back. If you text me and I don't text you back, I just didn't see it or I forgot. I was busy. The thing is, I don't know if you've ever got this, but people are like, yeah, yeah, you changed. Or they like, I see them at a party and they're like, still waiting on the text back. I'm like, dude, oh, I'm sorry, bro. You know, I saw it pop up, but I was in the middle of meeting. I meant to get back to you, but, like, when you get hundreds of text messages a day, everyone needs shit from me all the time. Like, I'm sorry, bro, I couldn't respond to your text about if you wanted to go play Call of Duty tonight.