Hannah Hammond uses the parable of the talents to show how fear of loss keeps you stuck. One servant buried his gold out of fear while others invested theirs and doubled their wealth. A scarcity mindset prevents growth; an abundance mindset enables it.
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The master, he had three servants, but he's leaving for a long time, and he gave one servant one bag of gold, another servant two bags of gold, and the third servant five bags of gold. He pretty much told them, you know, do the best you can with it. When I come back, let me know what you did. The guy with five bags of gold, he went and invested it, did his thing, turned it into 10. The guy with two bags of gold, he did the same thing. He turned two into four. He flipped the bag in his life. He, you know, maximized it, invested it, did his thing. The guy with one bag of gold was scared and lazy, buried the one bag of gold and didn't do anything. The story that's really resonated with me within that doesn't matter whether you're the guy with one, two, or five bags of gold, it's what you do with what you got. I can't control the cars I've been dealt in life, but what I do with the cars I've been dealt, I can't control. And I'm going to flip the bag in my life.
If we are stuck in a scarcity mindset, we lose always. And so that one bag of gold, he was in a scarcity mindset, and he was afraid because he needed to keep it for himself. And the other two that had the abundance mindset were able to create more abundance and more wealth.