Improbable Wealth
If you survey a cross section of the population and ask them if becoming wealthy is possible for the average man or woman, you will probably get a very negative response by and large. As an entirely non-scientific estimation, I would venture that your response will be somewhere between 90 and 95 (+) percent of respondents who will say that no, the average person will never be wealthy, and that wealth is unattainable for the regular man or woman. In many ways their predictions will be right, but not for the reasons that they will give you.
Wealth Is Improbable
Wealth is improbable for the average person; the statistics prove it. The average man or woman, by the age of retirement, will be either dead, broke, or relying on someone else (family, government, or both) for their financial and living support. This is what working hard all your life gets for more than 96% of the world’s developed population. That makes becoming wealthy a highly improbable occurrence, at least if you look only at the statistic numbers.
Wealth Is Not Impossible
However, if you look at the reasons why this is true, then you can begin to see that while wealth may be statistically improbable, it is not at all impossible—so that 95% would still be incorrect.
Wealth is not statistically improbable because those 96% do not have the ability to build wealth; it is improbable only because they do not believe that they can. They believe more in the impossibility of becoming wealthy, and so they become convinced that there is some reason why they and all the people like them cannot be. What they ignore is the fact that the wealthy are just like them, too—there’s nothing different about them except for the fact that they have at some point become privy to a different kind of financial education (formal or informal) and they have a different mindset and attitude towards money and wealth. They do not, however, enjoy significant differences in intelligence, and not necessarily in opportunity (some will, some won’t, but even those who do have more opportunity to begin with will lose it and wind up without wealth without the right management, strategy, and attitude).
The numbers may prove that wealth as it stands today is an improbable thing, but they say nothing about the possibility of becoming wealthy—they only reflect history, not future wealth. The future is yours to create and change.
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009
Tags: Attitude, becoming wealthy, Build Wealth, Improbable Wealth, Mindset, statistics, Wealth
August 5th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
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