Chapter 14 - Success is what you make it
- Personal attributes required for success:
- Self-confidence - realization that your mind can learn the truth and apply it with positive results in every realm of life
- Self-motivation and commitment; ability and willingness to put the time and energy into learning what to trade and how to trade it
- Intellectual independence - ability to stand on your own judgement based on facts as you see them
- A fundamental personal honesty, a total commitment to identifying and dealing with the truth about yourself, the markets, your decisions
- A sincere love of what you do; the greatest reward comes from the work process itself, not money or fame
- In a country abounding with financial opportunity:
- It’s strange that people have a love-hate relationship with money
- Some people see it as something that enslaves them. “If I weren’t entrapped by the pursuit of the almighty dollar I’d be free to do what I want and be fulfilled in life”
- Others spend their lives in pursuit of money without ever learning to enjoy it
- For Vic money is “a tool that allows [people] either to exchange the product of their labour for the products and services of others or to save the results of their efforts for the future. Money is a means with which to transform personal energy into matter, a vehicle to turn dreams into reality.”
- The power of the subconscious mind is an enormous resource
- Activities that are ‘fun and effortless’ - are in alignment with the subconscious
- When you have a meltdown the subconscious is not aligned
- Personal greatness is a direct result of the ‘supercomputer of the mind’ functioning according to design
- Attaining a positive and motivated state should be a goal
- Goals, actions, awareness, change
- Make a commitment to success
- Output depends on input, introspection is using your conscious awareness to access the subconscious, desire to change our current state, the need for ‘true motivation’, remove limiting beliefs etc. etc.
- This goes on for pages and pages. Vic gets steadily more grandiose, more Randian, and more abstract with every page, until you are either ready to join his cult or ready to move onto the next chapter.
2