Member-only story
Everybody gets a shot at being a millionaire. Here’s how to take your shot
The question of why people become rich and others remains so weak is lifelong. Many persons have been searching for an answer to this question for years, and a concrete response has not been discovered. I have asked this same question myself. People have asked me the same question since I started presenting myself to the public as a researcher with interest in understanding human beliefs and the theory of psychophysical parallelism.
Recently, I discovered that we have been asking the wrong question. Math scholars can attest that wrongly asked questions barely have answers. The right question to ask, instead, is, “how do millionaires get the chance to become so rich, in the first place, while others don’t?”
Fortunately, everybody did get a chance to be equally rich, but they never took it. Most — if not all — had multiple chances to become grounded in wealth. They either did not recognize that it was a life-time opportunity, or they did but ignored it for some reason best known to them.
“I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.” — Troy Polamalu
