Why Do People Think They Can Simply Buy Experience?

Achieving an accolade, an award, a certificate of merit can take years of studying, testing, researching and perfecting until the day dawns on your final test and you will either succeed with glory or be marked down as a failure. It can have a dramatic effect on what you do in years to come, you will either think of yourself as an achiever or you will hang on to the thought that you were not good enough, and perhaps think of yourself as mediocre or a failure.

Some people go through life with those thoughts and those test results repeating themselves over and over again. Those same thoughts then materialise in the house they think they should live in, the car they think they should drive, the money they think they can earn and it becomes a paradigm that can hold you back for years. Conquering your mindset and investing in your own education is part of the journey that eludes most people.

Other people think and believe that they can achieve anything they set out to have, they believe in setting big goals, living life to the full and having time and money freedom in which to enjoy the beauty of life.

I am reflecting on this because I wonder why people think they can simply BUY experience. Why do so many people buy Business Opportunities that will for the most part provide you with a growing residual income if you just follow the plan and put it into action, but for some reason, perhaps out of sheer desperation or instant gratification, they buy it, skim read it, test it once if ever then add it to the shelf in the study next to the others and start looking for another one.

The reason these opportunities exist, is usually because someone has invested a lot of their time learning to become an expert, they have studied and learned, applied and succeeded and want to share with others how they can do it too. From my research to date, I can see there are many ways in which to create passive income, but I need to select ones that “fit” me.

I have come to realise WHY the answers simply can never be in a book, take words of wisdom, another key to unlock another piece of the puzzle from them certainly, but you will never find everything you need to truly succeed without experiencing the journey yourself.