When you think of "wealth," what comes to mind?
Is it mountains of money? A growing number in a bank account? Or the freedom to spend money?
If you equate money with wealth, you may spend your life chasing appearances and never be truly rich.
1、The nature of Money: It is only a "trust tool"
In the past, human society had no money, only barter. You have a sheep, I have a bag of wheat, and we exchange our resources for what we need.
But here's the question: if you don't need wheat, you want shoes, and I don't make shoes, what do we do?
And so money was born.
What is the nature of money? It is a "certificate of trust" that represents the value you have created in the past, allowing you to exchange the value of others at any time, anywhere in the future.
So, money does not equal wealth. Wealth is the ability, resources, and assets that you really control to create value. And money is just a measure of wealth.
If you understand this truth, you will not make money as the end, but will make "continuous value creation" as your core competence.
2、Why don't 99% of people make a lot of money?
The answer is simple: they don't grasp the underlying logic of "value creation."
2.1. Your income depends on your scarcity
The more unique your abilities are, the greater the market demand for you, and the more money you can make.
But what most people do every day can be easily replaced, can be scaled up, can be replaced by AI, and is not even non-replicable.
2.2. Your wealth depends on how many people you can provide value to
Individual ability is stronger than the leverage effect.
Ordinary people rely on physical strength to make money, white-collar workers rely on time to make money, and truly rich people rely on systems, brands, capital to make money.
2.3. Where your money goes depends on your cognitive boundaries
For the same $100,000, ordinary people bank, smart people invest themselves, and the rich use it to leverage larger resources.
Your way of thinking determines your future level of wealth.
3、The only way to truly have wealth
3.1. Improve your "Irreplaceability"
What can you do that no one else can?
• Develop your professional skills to become a "scarce resource" in the industry
• Deeply cultivate a field and become a leader in market segments
• Develop "crossover capabilities" to build your unique competencies
3.2. Let Time and the system make money for you
The real rich, not by time to change money, but by the system to make money.
• Build an automatic money making model (e.g., investment, business, brand)
• Let "money" help you make money (such as investing assets instead of consuming them)
• Leverage - technical leverage, financial leverage, network leverage
3.3. Change your perception of wealth
What you believe, you will get.
Poor thinking: fear of loss, thinking about "how to save money"
Rich thinking: looking for opportunities, thinking about "how to create value"
If you always think about "not enough money," then you will always be trapped in the reality of "not enough money.
4. How do you become truly rich?
4.1. Write down what you do best and think about how you can turn it into a marketable value.
4.2. Invest at least 10% of your income each month to upgrade your knowledge and skills.
4.3. Start building a "money making system" that allows money to flow independently of your time.
4.4. Communicate with people with high cognition, jump out of the original circle, and open a greater wealth thinking pattern.
4.5. Stop getting rich by "saving money" and get rich by "adding value."
The essence of wealth is not money, but the value you contribute to the world.
how many people you can influence, how much money you can get, How much value you can create, how much wealth you can have.
The true freedom of wealth is not the amount of money you have, but the ability to re-create value even if you lose everything, so that money can actively flow to you.
