Should you study the rich??

[blaircooper]

Remember, anything is possible. You just need to know how to do things right.

 

[TheAvatarState]

There's a lot to be learned from rich people. There's a lot to be learned from poor people. There's a lot to be learned from spiritual masters. There's a lot to be learned from fools. 

Above all, study yourself. 

[Karla]

@TheAvatarState love this answer.

[Karla]

@blaircooper I do kinda dig Grant Cardone. He was an alcoholic and drug addict and totallt flipped the script.

[Good-boy]

No need to study myself ??

[Quicksilver]

These talks give you the illusion of learning something but you rarely do. 

Personal circumstances and randomness make so much more of a contribution to someones success or demise that listening to someone back-rationalizing what it is that made them succeed will not constitute actionable advice for yourself. 

This of course, outside the common sense advice of "work hard", "be open", etc. 

 

 

[Michael569]

a lot of people study the rich because they are looking for a get rich quick manual. A shortcut to become Richard Branson in 2 years instead of 50. A lot of the very rich people were in a sense lucky either by starting during a technological vacuum or having an access to abundant material or natural resources. Having said that, they are all incredibly hard working people with a lot of discipline and dedication. 

It is helpful to study their success habits and mindset but at the same time I challenge you to study their neurosis, they inadequacies and selfish tendencies to abuse natural resources and other people for their own profit and achievement. Be as generous as he might today, in his youth people like Warren Buffet required that thousands of people lost massive fortunes for them to earn the money they did from stock exchange. They were ruthless, aggressive and did not hesitate to step over others. That was same for most technological ex-CEOs of our time.  

 

[TheAvatarState]

9 hours ago, Michael569 said:

Having said that, they are all incredibly hard working people with a lot of discipline and dedication. 

Not true at all, this is a generalization. There's plenty of rich people who just got lucky through inheritance or with, like you said, access to people, ideas, and resources way beyond the norm. What people do WITH their money is way more telling of the character underneath than just the brute fact that they have a lot of money. 

[possibilities]

When a baby is born, the most important thing for it to learn is to think for itself and think well.

If you have already achieved this and can describe the manner in which you think in a profoundly intricate way, then yes of course, study the rich if this is going to help you in your endeavour.

When a person is capable of thinking for themselves and thinking well, along with that greater maturity of being able to display eloquence on the subject of their own mechanics, it is not my place to say how one subject will benefit them or won't benefit them without understanding the full scope of their dealings.

There's many ways in which you could study "the rich" as you've categorised them that don't necessarily directly relate to the subject of "richness".

A biologist could relate the patterns they discern on this to their subject and a financial investor could relate the patterns they've discerned in biological studies to their financial studies.

The world is wide open in this sense, it is filled with a plethora of connections waiting for you to comprehend them!