How the poor can become rich

For the poor man to become rich, he has to unlearn his wealth rejecting habits and focus on what is left. A European polling organization, Credit Suisse counts the rich to be 42.2 million in its 2018 Global Wealth Report. Divide that by the 7.7 billion people currently inhabiting this planet, and you will get about 0.5 per cent. And just like you get to that percentage, we think ‘getting rich’ is an activity. That it is about movement, action, struggle. It’s implied but not exactly about how we use the word ‘get’ in how we get coffee; get a job or get to the top of a mountain.
   
Though it is true that getting rich requires years of hard work; you will have to learn a lot, build skills; make the right decisions at the right time and have a whole bunch of luck in the process. But if that’s all we focus on, we will miss the most important factors involved in seeking riches. Understanding that you are most likely to build wealth on the back of something that grows exponentially is a huge perspective shift. But it is an important shift in perception. Otherwise, you might always be working on something, be so busy hustling that you forget to build the stakes in your ventures that can still work out after you have left them.