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Now, it’s 10:50am. I’m gonna have breakfast and then will write an article for my English course.
12:40pm. After writing the article, I watched a couple of videos by Kiyosaki. This man is totally deluded and lives in the day before yesterday. Not because he’s old and talks about the same shit he was talking about 20 years ago, but all his language, concerns, thoughts and inspirations show the lack of even the remotest understanding of what’s going on in the world. He’s still chasing money and passive income. It’s almost impossible to listen to him seriously.
I decided to read another book: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason. This book was written in 1926 and is considered a kind of classic book for moneymakers. It’s gonna be the third step in my journey of getting rich. By “getting rich” I mean, of course, shifting my mindset. It’s not just about money.
3. The Richest Man in Babylon
2:30pm
I’ve read 1/4 of the book. As I expected, the book really tells nothing about money but provides pure inspiration, trying to convince the reader that to be rich is good and wealth is the most desirable thing on earth. The Babylonian story is presented as if it were 18-century capitalist England, where anyone who saves 10% of their income may become the richest person in the city. The author is by all mean completely ignorant about history and knows nothing about social relationships outside of commercial area. I can’t give this book any credit rather than taking it as a fairy tale for greedy children.
Neither Kiyosaki nor Clason deserve any attention. Their prime motivation has nothing to do with what I’m driven by. I don’t wanna become rich for the sake of being rich. I need a stable income in order to create a family and have time to practice philosophy. So far as the latter is almost entirely opposite to any sort of financial pursuits, I can justify the time I’ve spent on reading these authors only as a matter of entertainment. They are unashamed baboons showing various tricks before the crowd. Perhaps, it’s possible to be “inspired” by such fools at the age of 15, and then become a millionaire, but I seriously doubt that it may lead to a wise life, and financial intelligence has nothing to do with intelligence as such. Yet, I’m inclined to read the book to the end, and even take some of its principles, applying them to what I’ll do next. Now I have a clear vision of what I’m doing. I’m creating intellectual property, whether it’s an English course or books or a youtube channel. There are lots of people thirsty for real wisdom and practical guidance in the scientific world. To be a scientist doesn’t mean to sit in a lab or do some tiresome experiments. Everyone may be a scientist of their own lives; all it takes is to organize their “information flow” and invest all free energy into developing their language. The financial mind is as bounded as chronic insanity. Now, I’m going to take a little break and then go on reading.
4.40pm.
During the break, watched a couple of videos on the channel: Gillian Perkins. The first one was about creating online courses on Teachable (How to Create an Online Course with Teachable: Step by Step Tutorial). I tried to follow this tutorial and learned how to make free logos, which was quite useful for my new youtube channel. Unfortunately, the free option of making courses is unavailable. The second video was about making passive income. (What’s the best way to earn passive income?: ebooks vs courses vs membership sites). This girl is pretty smart; she wrote a book, made many courses and finally created a platform for many people who make business online which gives her more than $10, 000 per month. She’s been into making online business courses for about seven years. I think I’ll watch more of her videos. One of the rules of getting “rich” is to surround ourselves with people who do what we want to do and who already have achieved noticeable results. Now, I’m gonna get back to reading.
5:20pm.
I wanna stop reading this book because it’s not what I need right now. All its content is quite simple and it doesn’t teach me anything that can help to make an online business. Moreover, I understand the dynamics of income and expenditure far better than many people do. I’ve been maintaining my budget, making daily notes for more than a decade uninterruptedly, day after day. Instead of reading books which tell me how I must think to get rich, I’m gonna focus on learning business language by reading articles and blogs. There is a definition of marketing from wikipedia: “m. is the study and management of exchange relationships. It’s the business process of identifying, anticipating and satisfying costumers’ needs and wants.”
7:30pm.
Read the whole article on wiki; watched a couple more videos about income. One was from G. Perkins (9 Passive Income Ideas) and another, from Project Mastery Life (How I Built 7 Income Streams That Make Me $200, 000 + Per Month). All this looks like people are making income by talking about making income. Weird. That’s it for today.
In the evening, I had a 30-minute talk with A while we were walking. It was our second attempt to learn how to communicate with each other. I’d say it was quite successful. At first, we found a contradiction and then painlessly resolved it. The topic was about raising kids. I said that I’m gonna invest “all” my time into kids’ education, making a stable income to free myself from work beforehand. She said that children don’t need so much attention and the best way of educating them is through leading by example. I tried to argue, but then took her side, admitting that she knew better. There is no way to fully describe our conversation, but I wanna just say it was really complicated and the direction it went was much better than the previous one did. I think these 20 minutes are going to make a big difference in a course of few weeks.
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