The “Work Hard Myth.” I’m sure this is one that you’ve heard. People want you to believe in the outright lie that you need to work hard to succeed, and “to succeed” is obviously your success. Just a codeword for money, to make the money, so this really isn’t true.
Let me explain it to you. If you own a business, and you put a bunch of other people in charge or a bunch of other slaves, well, they can slave for you. Then, you can do whatever you want, whenever you want, with whoever you want. You can have total, 100 percent, freedom.
They — some of these lying, deceitful human beings — would like to program you from a young age and tell you once you’re on the job that you need to work hard and in possibly five or six years you can get an extra five or six grand whilst you work your way up the corporate, or as I prefer to call it, the sheep ladder.
They really want you to believe that the harder you work the more money you are going to make. You probably will make a little bit more money, but you will be making them more money in the process, which is why they want you to buy in to this outright nonsense.
They will pay you from nine until five and you will be squeezed like a stress ball from eight until eight, because that’s the way that it works for the people that believe this nonsense.
Now, I don’t believe that you have to work hard to make money and therefore, I get what I believe. I don’t work that hard. Sometimes through choice I choose to work hard, but only on occasion, whereas other people, people that believe that they have to work hard to make the money, they get what they believe and they work very, very hard.
It really comes down to the mindset and the thought processes, but the society in which you live would really like you to work hard, work your way up, have no equity in any business, but just hand all the equity over to the business owner and the shareholder – or shareholders — and they will be the ones who can benefit from your hard work.
Now, I want to tell you a couple of quick stories because — well, the first one I find really rather humorous. It’s how programmed people are. Somebody recently told me that a girl told them that her friends were jealous of her because she was working seven days a week and they didn’t have seven days’ worth of work.
I really find that hilarious. I know I possibly shouldn’t, but I really do find it rather just hilarious because people have been programmed so badly that they need to work, work, work, work, work. The funny thing is only a few hundred years ago there was no jobs or careers or work or any of this other nonsense.
You had your food, you and your little clan. You fended off any attacks from the outside world and you got by on a day-to-day basis trading, giving more eggs and walrus blubber for reindeer skins. I’ll give you that quick example there because I recently watched a documentary on some cold part of the world and these Eskimos, that was the true life they lived. There was no talk of jobs or careers or working hard, so that just puts these things into perspective a little bit about the society in which you now live.
Second story here for you. I was in a coffee shop. I used to go in and frequent there fairly regularly because it had the Internet and I am an Internet junkie, as you people know. I’m always online.
I gave them the illusion, the perception, that I was working hard because people don’t like it when they see that you don’t have to work hard for money as well, especially those people that are busting their balls to work hard. As a result, they thought or had the perception, and their perception skill is so bad, that I was working really, really hard. So they said to me, “Son, you work really, really hard.”
In all seriousness, I was doing a little bit of work, but the majority of the time I was just chilling out online surfing the web and they thought I was working really, really hard. And it was like, “Oh, yes, yes. You have to work hard,” as if to tell me that they knew better than I did. Unfortunately for them, they’re serving me, so I don’t really think they do.
So a couple of quick stories for you on this whole working hard outright lie, myth, nonsense, spiel, garbage and I would really encourage you to not work hard. You don’t need to have the work-hard mindset. You can leverage other people and other people’s time and other people’s money to make you money and to make you time, because you can sell your time for money or you can choose money for time and I would encourage you to take the latter.