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Making Your First Million
Chapter 6 - How Do I Get Moving?
To really get mobile you must look at the trends. And I don't mean transient fashions.
That's just being a victim. I mean the deep, underlying groundswell of change that most
people miss because they're totally focused on the now. Sure, you can fall into it by
accident but it seems to me if you do the mental discipline of trying to make sense of the
big picture you'll be ready with your engines running, on the runway with a clear map of
the world for when you decide to take off. Most people don't think or plan or reason at
all. Most people are too busy making a living to make money. They are by and large the
mindless consumers of whatever pap is fed them. You can swallow it if you want but
you've been given a brain for a reason. Yes, thinking is hard. But consider the alternative.
And you must out-think the game if you're to succeed.
So consider the deep, underlying trends:
• a polarized society with a growing gulf between rich and poor, skilled and
unskilled
• exponential expansion of low-cost technology (mobile phones, GPS, Internet,
CDROM, faxes, PC's) which empowers the individual and allows him to do more
with less
• convergence, overnight adoption, acceptance, de facto standardization and
indispensability of new technologies (CDRom based GPS mapping in entry-level
cars is a classic example. Soon the entire surface of the earth will be GPS-coded
on CD)
• emphasis moving from molecules to electrons, from hardware to software, from
goods and products to information, from physical possessions to knowledge, from
the material to the spiritual
• exponentially increasing rate of change with shorter systems and information halflife
with need for ongoing learning and reskilling
• higher skill, flexibility, heuristic reasoning and intelligence requirements at the
top end and elimination of lower skilled jobs at the bottom end
• longer working hours for those in work, with husband and wife both working
• low or zero inflation with the prospect for deflation, ending 50 years of inflation
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