How to Defend Yourself Against Life’s Two Biggest Weaknesses
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Someone related to espionage told me this: we are most vulnerable at two points in our lives. First, when we are without a life-mate. Second, when we have lost our financial footing. He told me that spies and others find these two weaknesses in human nature the easiest and most common to exploit.
The experience of being a Nice Guy or AFC should have awakened you to the reality of how easy it is to be exploited in the first weakness. It is not just the girls who walked over you that were exploiting you. It is also the marketing. "Wear this and all the ladies will love you!" The movies. "OMG, that young actress is sooo hot! Who cares if the movie sucks or she can't act?" Music. "Lalalala, I sing of my heart's loneliness, lalalala." Clubs, bars, designer clothes, sports cars—everyone behind these things is pressuring your weak point there.
How to solve this weak point:
- Be comfortable and confident to go get ANY girl at ANY time, no matter your financial or material situation.
- Know what you TRULY want in life. Have a PURPOSE or a PASSION—a stronger tether to keep you from being pulled by exploiters.
- Be able to say NO to any girl and don’t take crap from anyone.
- Create an identity that doesn’t depend on women or female approval (father, husband, boyfriend, player—all are insignificant since they depend on women to exist).
- Keep investing time in yourself. Don’t waste your entire youth chasing girls.
The second weakness is much softer than the other one. The issue of money is very important. It will be a dominant issue in your life, probably even more so than women.
How people exploit those with little to no financial footing:
- By big corporations promising you a career to "climb the corporate ladder" for the rest of your life with "401k" retirements and more. What they do not say is that there is no job security today. Those GM/Ford/Airline/ETC workers who were promised pension retirements? Their pension funds keep getting slashed, so they have to go back to work. Do you really think the 401ks and mutual funds will be as secure?
- By banks offering you a house. "Your house is an asset," they say. Yes, it is true. But your house is an asset to the bank. Even if you pay off your house, your payments will probably increase because of property taxes and other costs. You really believe you "own" your house? Try not paying your property taxes and you will find out who TRULY owns it.
- By Wall Street saying, "Invest for the long term! Diversify, diversify, diversify!" Does Warren Buffett diversify? What about Bill Gates? Keep control of your money—don’t just hand it over to fund managers.
- By politicians saying, "We will fix your pension problem" to "Let us lower taxes" to "Let us raise taxes on the 'rich'." Politicians are very wealthy, and they did not earn their wealth through income. There is no wealth tax. But there is an income tax because they don’t want YOU to be wealthy. If everyone was financially secure, what role would the politician have?
Most political issues are financial—not by coincidence. From college loans to overseas jobs, layoffs, social security, and health care, they are all targeting your financial weak spot.
The cure for being financially exploited: 6. Become financially literate. Know how to read a financial statement. Everyone needs to know how to do this. You will be dealing with money your entire life. There are two constants in life: one is for you to make money, and the second is for everyone to want your money. Everyone. 7. Keep open the OPTION of investing or starting a business. You do not HAVE to, but we become stronger when we have more options, not fewer. If you feel incapable of breaking out and starting a business or investment, you will be enslaved to employers for the rest of your life. Just keep the options open. 8. Do what YOU want—do NOT follow the Way. (What is the 'Way'? College → Good Job → Marriage → Big House → Vacations → Kids → Save for kids' college → Retire.) You do not HAVE to get married or do any of that. There is no formula for life. Trust no one who tells you that you should consider yourself 'lucky' even if you feel unhappy in your job, wife/girl, or house.
Do all the above and I will die a happy Pook. There is a reason they call the financial world a "dog-eat-dog" world. Who is eating WHOM?
Also, consider those nature shows of one species devouring another. Humans are capable of it as well. There is a reason why young men turn into big, fat, bald old men by the time they are thirty or forty. Healthiness of the soul is healthiness of life.
Finance: Traits of Successful People I’ve Met I’ve met my share of millionaires and successful entrepreneurs. Is there something unique about their characters? Here’s what I’ve observed: EVERY successful person I’ve met has these two qualities:
- They work very hard at what they do (and easily put in the time to do it).
- They LOVE what they do (so it doesn’t seem like work).
Trends They are very aware of trends—not fashion trends, but demographic and technological trends. Example: Japan’s population is decreasing; America’s is increasing. Understanding trends means investing in real estate in Japan may not be wise, while investing in America might be.
I have a friend who notices a new trend, builds a solid business in it, and sells the company for big bucks while the trend is hot. Then he moves on to the next trend. Example: Years ago, when handheld PCs were a novelty, he created a business in that field, and when the industry took off, he sold it. Millionaire at 26. Not bad!
Bill Gates made his fortune by spotting trends. Altair was developing the first home PC, and Gates called them to sell his operating system (which he hadn’t even written yet). He ended up buying one from someone else and putting himself in the trend of operating systems for home PCs.
Spotting bad trends is equally important. If you start a business in a dying trend, you can do everything right and still fail. Don’t sell horse and buggies when cars are hitting the assembly line.
Communication Money is attracted to communicators. Every successful person I’ve met had excellent communication skills—not necessarily salesmanship, but an acute awareness of human nature. They know how the other person is thinking and adjust their presentation accordingly.
This is how they create products customers want, and how they get investors to invest. St. Augustine said the best way to win a debate is to know the opponent’s position better than they do. (Those who get the women are also the communicators.)
Failure All these people failed at some point. Oddly, many had bitter memories of being made fun of in school or youth. I sense they are trying to prove something to the world.
They chased their dreams, not the avoidance of mistakes. They didn’t say, "Let’s analyze forever so there will be no mistakes!" They said, "Let’s make this vision real."
Time > Money For many, money was not the main focus—it was doing what they loved. The money came later. Time is more valuable to them than money. You may get money from a rich man, but it’s hard to get his time.
Poor people will drive all around town to save a few bucks. The wealthy sacrifice those few bucks to gain more time. They did this even before they were rich.
Share your observations with any successful person you’ve met.
Written by Pook at SoSuave forum
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