How do our instincts keep us from accruing wealth, maintaining youthful health, and strengthening relationships we have? Is the modern financial system designed to amplify the worst in us? Is our stress antithetical to our net worth? If we were to redistribute all wealth equally between all the people in the world, pretty soon the same people who are wealthy now will accrue most of that wealth again. What do they know that others don't? What separates the top 1% from the remaining 99%? Wealth is neutral. It does not flow on moral grounds. Nor does it flow where it's needed. It flows where it flows. In this book, you will see why it flows, and why it refuses to flow to you. And what you can do to align yourself so that it flows to you. Wired to be Poor is a timeless masterpiece that examines the nature of wealth creation and accumulation. Wealthy People Have A Secret Code A code of actions that they follow. A code without which they wouldn't be successful and wealthy. In fact, it's not their smarts, or their looks, or their sparkling personality that makes them wealthy. It's the simple practice of following this universally powerful code. You could take a bum off the street and hand him this code. If he practices it, within three to four years you'd have a millionaire. Or a millionaire in the making. And you can attribute all the success that wealthy people have to this one code. Let's talk about Sharon Osberg for a minute. Who is this Sharon Osberg guy, and what can you learn from him? Answer: When Warren Buffet decided that he wanted to learn how to play Bridge, do you know what he did? He did not start learning by Trial and Error. He did not just read the rules of the game and start playing. He didn't just say, "Hmm... I'll read the inside of the cover, learn the rules, and start playing." No. He hired someone. Someone very important. Someone who's a foremost expert at Bridge. Not just playing bridge. But winning at it. Warren Buffet hired Sharon Osberg. Now Osberg is not just an ordinary bridge trainer. Those are a dime a dozen. Like the "experts" found on every nook and cranny of the internet. Osberg is a two-time World champion bridge player. World champion. And here's why that should matter to you... Warren Buffet knows that the rules for playing a game are different from the rules for winning at a game. Sure, you still follow the rules for playing. But now, your strategy is based on strategies that winners use. Warren Buffet did not want to be an average bridge player. He wanted to excel at it. And so he decided to learn from the very best. The world champion. That's Sharon Osberg. Millions of bridge players start on their own. They think they are smart enough to decipher the game on their own. You know what happens to them? They get shredded. They get shredded by the likes of Warren Buffet - people who learn from the winners. Buffet learned his "bridge-winning" strategies from someone who was a real world champion at it. Other bridge players (let's call them sheep) are arrogant enough to think that they can learn on their own. Naturally, Buffet (or T-bone... his username. You can actually play bridge with him online if you have enough money to join his table, and don't mind losing to him because he does have the winning strategies) will shred everyone else.
About the Author: Lakshay Behl is New York's eminent business growth strategist, with a passion for taking good companies and turning them into world-class value production machines. His approach towards business growth is based on six fundamental principles, which together lead to exponential growth. Lakshay has a penchant for impossible challenges, and often undertakes any project that is deemed " virtually impossible." This has been true for all his life, and Lakshay has time and again beaten all odds to succeed in business, academics, sports, and personal life. At the age of 14, when he was told that getting into the Indian institute of Technology is a virtual impossibility, he made it his mission to get in. And he cleared the exam that 99% of the candidates fail in his first attempt. When at the age of 16 Lakshay was told that he couldn't start a business with just $20 starting capital, he ensured that he would not have more than $20 and two days to start a company, and get his first client, and went on to get six clients within two days. The pattern continues with his hobbies as well. "Nobody gets a kill the first time the go out for hunting, but it's a good learning experience" they said. Within three days, Lakshay had his first kill. "You can't date supermodels" they said. Within a couple of months, he was dating two. His core philosophy is both stoic and applicable. He believes in the 80/20 principle extensively. He also believes that 80% of his own ideas are going to be duds, and that that does not reflect personal failure. As a result, he executes rapidly, and constantly tests unproven ideas. Failure of an idea does not faze him, as he always starts with at least 10 different ideas for each campaign, and does not emotionally invest in any unproven idea. At the age of 16, Lakshay started a boutique digital advertising agency, and was responsible for billings of over two Million Dollars in the first year of its inception. Finding new and creative avenues for acquiring clients is a personal passion of Lakshay's, and also the reason for the rapid growth of many of his clients' companies. At this time, Lakshay only works with a maximum of four clients per year, and only takes on projects that are both "challenging" and "potentially insightful". He also insists on only working with realists, and success oriented people who are unfazed by temporary setbacks, and are quick executioners who don't waste much of their time in meetings and discussions.