Jan 19 2010
Top 10 Lies We’ve Been Fed Since Our Youth
10. A life of giving and a life of financial wealth are mutually exclusive.
9. Putting your name and opinions out there will prevent you from getting a job.
8. Pursuing a dream is so financially risky that if you fail, you will end up broke and alone.
7. X political party and Y political figure are responsible for your unhappiness.
6. Degrees, accreditations, and certificates are necessary for success.
5. The rate of change of your bank account correlates directly with your rate of success.
4. If you just do your job, everything else will fall into your lap.
3. You can’t attract a quality woman without a good job, a nice place of your own, and a decent car.
2. You are very important and everyone cares about what you say or think.
1. Suffering is a virtue.
Number 10 is my favorite. It’s been said that by being giving with your money, your also telling yourself that money is easy to come by, and thus will be easy to make. By thinking that money is hard to make, you end up living that reality and money does become harder to make. Moral, give moar, recieve more.
6. Degrees, accreditations, and certificates are necessary for success.
Amen; credentialism is the clericalism of secular society; a sheep-skin is just proof that you knew who to suck off in college.
My favorite is number 1. Society really needs to get over that one…
Who is John Galt?
#1 isn’t very Yankee of you!!
This whole list is actually spot on!
thanks for share. I will shared face
Oh, man, what a list!
Number 6 is a biggie for sure… really made me laugh.
This post is a self indulgent straw man, and very redundant.