The speaker grew up poor, wearing hand-me-downs and secondhand everything, which built a scarcity mindset that made wealth feel undeserving. Shifting to an abundance mindset is possible for anyone, they argue, because they did it themselves.
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Why does it seem like money is one of the hardest things to break through when it comes to believing we are deserving of money? I think it is to do with our deservability. I just think that's ingrown into us. What about all the things, you know, money doesn't grow on trees, you know, you know, we, I can't afford it. I mean, I can, I came from really humble background. My parents could not afford, you know, we had secondhand clothes. So I had A whole lot of lack fed to me just by my day-to-day living as a child and growing up. I didn't ever feel that, but I certainly grew up with lack because I knew when I discovered the secret, I had to turn my mindset from lack to a wealth mindset to an abundance mindset. And so I set about to do that, and that's why I know anyone can do it, because I did it.