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until that point I had probably only read 5 to 10 books in my entire life. When I
discovered personal development books I just couldn’t stop reading.
However, when I studied them I thought, wow this is great - with these
books anyone can get rich. I then of course noticed that despite these books
being everywhere and despite lots of people telling me how good these books
were… that people simply weren’t getting rich! There were millions and millions
of books, but not millions and millions of millionaires! There were a few but
they were the ones who would have made themselves rich anyway. There didn’t
seem to be any difference between people who studied personal development,
and those that didn’t, getting rich. Sure the people seemed happier, but they
weren’t any richer. So this puzzled me. Eventually I realised that the way the
books shared their wisdom wasn’t getting through to the vast majority of their
readers.
Now, my dad was a teacher and I had always thought of that as a poor
choice of profession as you weren’t paid enough. However, my dad taught me
different ways of learning as he helped me with my homework. He explained
that there were always ways to teach it, and a lot of people’s minds worked
differently. You just need to teach in ways that the majority can understand, and
then the majority will help the minority to get it as well. He didn’t say it, but I
assumed that it was daft to just teach the cleverest children and hope that
the rest would get it .
In 2005 I attended a seminar and heard that just 1% of people retired
rich. In other words, people worked their entire life, struggled throughout,
rushed around, continuously emailing and phoning and the financial basis of
their lives resulted in a 99% failure rate! Now, I got incensed by this statistic, it
really did anger me at the time. As how could we have bought into a system that
had that failure rate? How could we be living our lives just ‘hoping’ it would work
out tomorrow, next week, next month, next year? This statistic wouldn’t leave
my mind, and then when I thought about all the people who were reading
personal development books, surely this statistic must change. Then I looked
around, virtually everywhere I looked it seemed that there was this 99-1 ratio.
But why? After all, I had made riches and I knew how easy it was to create.
Then when I was researching for this book to prove the 99-1 statistic I
found the real truth… That the odds of success were far worse than 99-1, in fact
it is 714-1 against you having a net worth of a mere $1 million. We’re not talking
cash here, we are talking your home, assets, cash, everything. So this is a fair sum
but it’s hardly really rich. But then the odds of you becoming worth $30 million
which is an Ultra High Net Worth Individual (rich) are just 75,178-1… So if
you’re good with maths then right now you’d be wishing that the 99-1 chance
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