99.998% Of People (Even Billionaires) Will Never Know Their True Potential

To the open-minded rationalist,

You’ve spent your entire life sipping on a cocktail of hope and action.

I hope you’ve mixed it well, because how successful and happy you are depends almost entirely on how you’ve balanced those 2 elements—and many of us sadly end up spoiling the drink as we pile on the hope, but go way too easy on the action.

But the reason for that is simple—it’s easier, for instance, to dream about owning a house by the beach than it is to actually buy one. Even without going into the job losses, recessions and crashing 401ks surrounding us, many people would still be put off by factors like:

• Inability—“I can’t afford it.”
• Fear—“It might be a bad investment.”
• Uncertainty—“I might be happier spending on something else.”
• Procrastination—“I probably shouldn’t buy it at this time.”
• Self-doubt—“I don’t deserve it.”

In the end, what most of us do is give up. We convince ourselves that the beautiful beach house is too hard to get, and we settle for the small semi-d in the suburbs. But…