Mel Abraham says society teaches you how to make money but not how to keep it. Getting rich takes risk and hustle; staying rich takes boring systems and discipline. Most wealthy people never learn the second skill, so they lose what they built.
Are we still only teaching people how to get rich and never how to stay rich? Because those two, they take almost completely opposite skill sets. Getting rich is exciting, it's thrilling, it's risk, it's momentum. But staying rich, it's boring. See, we were raised to build one machine, the earnings machine. Get a good job, build a good business, get a good professional career, make money, make money, make money. That was the key. Nobody teaches us the second machine, the one that keeps it. That's why so many people who are great at getting rich end up losing it, having to rebuild it. See, if getting rich felt exciting and staying rich feels mundane, that's not a warning sign. That's just the job changing.
