I failed to cross the 1 million dollar mark simply because of my ego and inability to be flexible.
I walked and talked like a high earner… But even if I was one in the past, that is a part of the past. But do you want to know what the problem was? I was my biggest enemy…
I had to erase what happened in the past and forget all of my successes and rebuild myself up from the ground up. It was standing in my way… The status, nice cars, houses… I had to turn to humility.
I had to let go of anything that I was made of and get beat up again.
Yes, I had to be beat up selflessly and start over…
I had to be rebuilt my views and be humble again.
By reading Josh Waitzkin's "The Art of Learning", it was like music to my ears…
Let me tell you a story about Josh…
There was a Tai Chi student Evan who was big and strong. He was mostly a winner but he had a HUGE problem, he couldn't up his game and get to the next level…
On the other hand, Josh was inferior and when they fought Evan would beat him up with his strength and Josh would fly like a piece of wood across the room…
BAM! BAM!
Josh would limp home and one day he even questioned himself why did he get into this sport? To get beat up like this?
Josh stopped his ego getting in the way and once he became humble and stopped making excuses about reasons why he couldn't beat Evan.. He stopped fearing the impact of the blows..
He started getting used to being smashed like a pumpkin.
He got relaxed… As as he became relaxed he started seeing Evan's moves…
Now, Josh could act before the shots came. Josh continued fighting Evan and figured out his soft spots…
And eventually smaller Josh beat the big Evan…
You see there's a fundamental difference between making $100,000 and $1,000,000…
Most of the time you have to shutter your beliefs to get to the next level…
And you know what's funny? Evan never fought with Josh again, his ego never allowed him to lose, so he rather quit.
Gene Adam
Sincerely,
You passive income guy