Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

GET RID OF THE MYTHS
There are a great many myths about self-made millionaires. If you
want to become a self-made millionaire yourself, you must dispel
these myths from your own mind. Remember, as the humorist Josh
Billings once said, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s
what he knows that isn’t true.”
Many people have fixed ideas or beliefs about themselves and
money that are holding them back. These ideas may be completely
untrue, but they will cut off your chances of success nonetheless.
You must get over them.
To achieve something you’ve never achieved
before, you will have to think in ways that you have never thought before.
One myth is that you have to have a great education to become
rich. Another myth is that you have to start off with a lot of money.
Some people are convinced that financial success depends on get-
ting a lucky break of some kind, like picking a hot stock in the
stock market.
None of these myths are true. In fact, a survey of members of
the Forbes 400, the 400 richest men and women in the United
States, found that high school dropouts in the group who made it to
the list were worth, on average, $300 million more than university
graduates on the list.