A speaker who grew up poor in rural Michigan explains how his father's belief that hard work equals money shaped his own thinking. He argues money isn't inherently hard to get, and that changing your mindset about wealth matters more than grinding.
learn. But you also need to realize that none of that means anything if you're not constantly developing your mindset because more than likely, the environment you grew up in, there's a lot of negative associations around money and around success. Did you feel like that was something you grew up with? And I didn't even know it. Yeah, it was subconscious. You know, like, for example, I grew up in rural Michigan, really poor. My dad taught me that if you want to get ahead, you work hard. So, there was this direct association with hard work and money. Well, your mind says hard and money and it doesn't know how to distinguish the difference. So, all you've done is created an idea that money is hard. And I had that. So, I thought— Most people do. Yeah. Yeah. Most people do. I thought money, it's going to take a long time, it's going to be really hard. And the reality is there is no correlation between hard and money. Money can come easy and it can come naturally and it can come fast, right? That's a mindset. It's not a thing. It's what you believe about money.
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