If you have watched The Secret, they just say focus your mind on what you want.
That is a nice thing to have, but that's not enough. I think simply having a positive mindset
is rubbish. Why we should have a positive mindset is because it facilitates action, so we can become productive.
It isn't the case that simply wishing for wealth will give as wealth. Otherwise, everyone would have been billionaires by now.
Some who say that it is not having a wealth attraction mindset; it is by doing hard work.
This is another absurdity from another extreme. Slaves work hard, yet they cannot attract wealth.
Rather, it is hard work towards end, i.e. productivity. In other words, it is work that produces results, not simply going through the motions.
Some hard work are useful; some hard work are demanded and well compensated. To the extent that consumers will want a certain product or service
produced through hard work can a person be wealthy.
Positive mind set works miraculously if and when it conditions a person not to feel the so-called disutility of labor. No one in his right mind really wants to work.
If and when he works, he feels a sort of disutility or disgust towards work, but the alternative is grimmer: no money, no food. Thus, pepople work.
But productive people who have positive mindset have found a deep purpose for why they work. This is the mechanism by which they overome the disutility of labor so that
it they feel good working.
So I conclude that positive mindset and wealth attraction psychobabble goes hand in hand with working hard. But ultimately, it is towards greater production.
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Note: From an economics point of view, wealth is achieved through savings and production [classical and Austrian economics], not by consumption, deficit spending,
and creation opf fiat money [Keynesian economics].
We live in a world of scarcity, but when self-help books talk about abundance, just read between the lines. It means that some people could find a way to access
a subset of this scare resources, and this subset that he can access is more than enough.
Consider water. It is scarce because the amount of it is constant, but it is also abundant because it cannot be consumed to oblivion.
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