Beginner’s Mind And Financial Success
June 4th, 2009
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When financial distress hits, you notice one thing: people freeze.
The ease of accepting new thoughts and new ideas vanish. They resort to old thinking.
It’s probably a comfort thing. Once you’re stressed, you want to avoid more stress and new situations and new ideas can be uncomfortable and stressful.
We resist risk.
Unfortunately, this is the exact time that you should embrace risk. In the words of Kris Kristofferson by way of Janis Joplin.
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.
And, perhaps, when you ain’t got nothing, you got everything to win.
If you feel this way, this is a time for a financial “beginner’s mind.”
is one of my favorite financial books of all time. It's an allegory about a guy who has a terrible job, and how he overcomes challenges to achieve his dreams.
