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Originally Posted by fbmfor  How do these ways of making money contrast with the first two sentences of Steve's post "The essence of successful income generation is value creation. If you want to earn income, you must provide something that matters enough to someone else that they’ll pay you for it."? |
Good question. The answer is that this series is specifically about career fulfillment, not merely making money. Based on the definition of a fulfilling career I stated in a previous post in this series, value creation is essential. You can certainly make money without value creation, but you won't find long-term fulfillment that way. Consequently, we can safely rule out the moocher approach when striving to build a deeply fulfilling career.
For a deeper exploration of the contributor mindset vs. the moocher mindset, see this article from Dec 2006:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/200...y-consciously/