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Originally Posted by wulph  What an interesting concept. Your hypothetical "child's IQ" beliefs seem to be a great example -- I'd love to learn more about this; any chance you could narrow down the title or author a bit? |
Hmm.... For some reason Seth Godin, possibly "All Marketers Are Liars" pops into mind. That may not be the book/author though. If not that, perhaps it was "Blink" by the author of "Tipping Point" (name escapes me right now).
If I remember correctly, the author was talking about ideas that have a natural "reproductive" quality to them, meaning that they are self-spreadable, are generally much more accepted and quicker than ideas that don't have that quality - regardless if they are actually true.
As such, in the context of this thread, a person who was mentored by a multi-millionaire and told that all you need to do in order to be wealthy is to visualize, meditate, clear limiting beliefs and become comfortable with wealth, give away 10% of what you make anonymously, and then keep quiet about how you make money so as not to upset the general population who may not be ready to accept such a possibility would simply be invisible to most people.
However, a book author, musician, actor, or someone who makes money in the public eye is much more visible. As such, most people don't realize that when they go to a mall, they may typically walk by 30 multi-millionaires without ever even knowing that they are multi-millionaires. Just the other day someone told me of a guy who made millions with a single idea for a way to improve some machine to pour out the exact amount of cream/sugar every time it was used.
There was also another book I was reading at one time that mentioned another problem with learning about making money from successful people. The author talked about how a lot of successful people don't know what makes them successful. For example they may report that in order to be wealthy they focused on building solid relationships with their clients, and the number one reason their clients loved them was due to their unwavering dedication to honesty. However, when their clients were interviewed it was found that honestly wasn't even mentioned, but instead the clients reported that the reason they maintained a relationship was due to the fact that the guy always sent them a Christmas card and birthday card every single year, whether they bought something from him that year or not - or something like that.
This is just an example, but the point was that a lot of times successful people are clueless as to the real reasons for their success. They might do 100 different things, and think that 10 of them are the reason for their success, but the real reasons are actually not those 10 but a different 10. As such the author recommended not only studying what successful people say, but also what they do, because they may not be aware what they're doing that's working. In some instances what they do may even be opposite of what they say.
