Let’s say person A genuinely believes that
he can make a lot of money and person B doesn’t believe that he can make a lot
of money. Let’s see how it will affect them.
Since person A genuinely believes that he
can make a lot of money, he will try to think about how to make a lot of money,
because he believes that he can make a lot of money, he knows that his goal can
be reached, he just needs to know how his goal can be reached. He will think
about how to make a lot of money, he will always think, “How can I make a lot
of money” to try to find a way to make a lot of money.
Since person B doesn’t believe that he can
make a lot of money, he won’t think about how he can make a lot of money, since
he doesn’t believe that he can make a lot of money, how can he think about how
to make a lot of money.
When a friend or an acquaintance of person
A enthusiastically approaches person A with an idea which can bring in a lot of
money, person A will respond enthusiastically and ask him what the idea is, and
if he happens to find there are 1 or 2 flaws with this idea, he will try to
repair the idea to get rid of the flaws so as to let the idea maintain the goal
that can bring in a lot of money.
When a friend or an acquaintance of person
B enthusiastically approaches person B with an idea which can bring in a lot of
money, person B will not be interested, because he knows that he won’t make a
lot of money, and his friend or acquaintance will feel disappointed and won’t
approach him any more if he has another idea in the future; or person B will
fake an interest because he doesn’t want to seem impolite, his friend or
acquaintance will think that he is interested and he will tell person B the
idea, as person B is listening to the idea, since he doesn’t believe that he
can make a lot of money, he will automatically try to think in ways that can
negate/invalidate the idea, thus he will quickly come up with reasons to let
his friend or acquaintance know why this idea won’t work. His friend or acquaintance
will feel be thrown cold water on and will not approach him any more if he has
an idea in the future.
Some people may say that person B is being
cautious. There is a difference between being cautious and being negative.
There is positively cautious and negatively cautious.
When you are being positively
cautious(positive and cautious), you just want to make sure that the idea
really works. If you ever find some factors may prevent the idea from working,
you will try to find solutions or countermeasures to prevent the factors from
affecting the goal. When you are being negatively cautious(cautious and negative),
you are not just being cautious, you are just being negative, you just use
cautiousness to cover your negativeness, you just want to prove that the idea
doesn’t work, you are artificially
cautious while genuinely negative, you just use your cautiousness to cover your
negativeness, you will try to find
reasons/factors that can make the idea don’t work, so it will conform to your
inner belief that you won’t/can’t make a lot of money.
We have
nothing to rely on but our mind. We are not our mind. Our mind is a buddy who
is always with us. Our abilities are just a natural derivative of our mind. We
rely on our mind to succeed so we want our mind to work hard and smart to help
us achieve our goals. When we believe that we will achieve a goal, our mind
will try to gather information that can help us achieve it or think up ideas
how to achieve it. When we don’t believe that we won’t be able to achieve a
goal, our mind will naturally not gather information that can help us achieve
it or think up ideas how to achieve it, he will, to please us, just try to
gather information or find reasons that can justify the goal can’t be achieved.
