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Don’t Feel Guilty About Improving Yourself in 2020 and Beyond
I hate being right sometimes, I really do.
Having been a student of life and human nature for the past half-decade, I’ve learned to observe patterns. I can’t predict the future, but I have a pretty good sense of where the zeitgeist is trending.
I’ve been banging the same drum over and over. Today, I’m going to bang it one more time just so the message is crystal clear to you.
This message is not just the message to embrace for 2020, but one to embrace for the foreseeable future.
In my book, I talked about the growing inequality we have in our society. You have the obvious inequality that everyone agrees on— wealth inequality — but then there’s the growing psychological gap that’s creating a whole new mental category of have and have nots.
Your psychology, the way you think the world works, and your perception are so strong and binding that they might as well be scientific laws.
You operate as if they were anyway. Society has continued to split into two factions — people who see infinite upside and people who think the sky is falling.
This gap has been growing for a while. On the one hand, you’ve seen people creating tailor-made careers, earning great money, and having insane levels of…
