This is my first time happening upon this blog. Excellent post!

Part of my work is financial counseling for low and moderate income families. During one of the money management classes a participant brought up the same point expressed here. While Googling “copy the rich” I was brought here. Cool!

While I wholeheartedly agree with the message I do feel that we even must be careful with how we communicate this message to others. There are some things we want to learn from the successful and there are things that don’t warrant emulation. I think we underestimate, in general, how significant other variables take into account a person’s realized success; known or unbeknown to that person, you, and I. And then there’s always luck or randomness. It’s just that when we look back at the big picture those things get lost.

Another thing is, how subjective is “rich”? Appearances aren’t everything. We’re not omnipresent. And we’re not efficient at having all the information. While it could appear that A led to B, how do we know that it’s not the other way around? Self-fulfilling prophecy? Or what if A had nothing to do with B?

I guess what I’m saying is probably just as important or more important then the successful person and what they did is also what was going on around them when it happened. That’s why I like the “surround yourself with successful people” suggestion. Careful to part the idiosyncrasies from the real agents that sparked change.

Personally, I feel if there is anyone to copy it would be those that aren’t wildly successful, but successful to a certain degree. Perhaps those that occupy the upper-middle income bracket. For there’s more of them than the super-successful and perhaps the correlation of their achieved success to what they perceived to do to get there is more tightly related.

To reach the upper-bracket I believe with what Damon said about 1.) not giving up and 2.) taking risks. And as everyone is saying, you got to think differently and be around those that wish you to be. Kind of twist on “Be the change you want to see”.

You pretty much got it. The biggest thing that tends to separate successful people from unsuccessful, is that successful people are willing to do what others are not willing to do in order to allow them to achieve a level of success that others don’t have.

Of course this is not always the case. There are a lot of factors that go into it, and I am certainly not saying that if you are not making a ton of money, or are currently not enjoying success, that you are not working hard. However, there is a very common thread.

The difference is that some people that are not successful now, will simply say, well I gave it a shot and give up. Others will keep on going, try and fail, try and fail, and try some more until they succeed. It doesn’t matter if you try and fail many times, you only have to hit it right one time to find success. So the odds favor those who don’t give up.
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Great to have you here and I hope you’ll enjoy the report.

I find it interesting that you say that you’re looking for “simple” ways. I’ve found that most of what you’ll need to do IS indeed “simple” but the consistency part and the action part is where most people fail.

Is that you’re experience too with your clients?

Mikael

I just grabbed your free report, I am looking forward to reading it. I am a financial consultant that helps many consumers struggling with debt, so I am always on the look out for simple ways that I can suggest they employ to increase their cash flow.

I of course subscribe the the philosophy of what you are writing about here. If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people that are as successful as you want to be and then do what they do. It isn’t much more complicated than that. Good info.
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Therefore, going along with a proven strategy that has been able to make someone succeed, is way more likely to bring you success too than heading in a totally different direction where you potentially increase your chances of failure and have no guaranty that whatever success you may experience would be at the level of what you could expect following a proven path.
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