When we succeed progress happens, when we fail, we're laid back and saddened, but this emotional state still doesn't make us stop, this is a natural phenomenon.
People get back into the thick of things after they've failed, this isn't because they're superhumans, but because they're conditioned to do so. However, this might take a lot of time.
Some people even failed in important life ventures, but they healed and came back again because time coupled with our natural integration is why we can never be stagnant. Stagnancy to me, is killing the limited time we have
we rather prefer to keep moving or create the illusion of progress
Most times people create the illusion of progress, to assure themselves that they're moving
Why?
the reason why they do this is that people need faith to embark on a stride of consistency. Continuity is embedded in our core, this is because we're naturally meant to grow unless we become catalysts of redundancy to ourselves.
Another thing is that the reality of failure is scary, this is why failure inasmuch as it's a negative impact, creates a positive reason as to why people choose to succeed. So when people hit a streak of consistency in their journey, success might happen.
The Mind Is conditioned To Be Borderless
So when people are continuously successful in the things they do, this is when they begin to seek stability, to maintain that position, and never have to lose again. This is normal.
There's no limit to how much a person can own. The moment we hit milestones, we're bound to set another. Milestones are seen as separate stages of success.
This is why billionaires will never stop chasing. The mind is conditioned to be borderless, so even when we reach a peak where we're comfortable and satisfied, the fear of being poor again is what makes us continue the grind.
Milestones Creates Endless Continuity
Another reason for this apart from fear is that we need to keep going, irrespective of the ground we've covered
The more quests we complete in life, the more we get to undertake because there's a place we want to get to; 100% stability.
For example, when people buy their first cars, they're likely to go on to buy the second, third, and fourth and this is how they'll likely continue until they get a garbage full of cars, this accomplishment makes them feel secure.
While owning cars is more like owning liabilities, there are people who get this bizarre satisfaction that seeing numbers, brings safety.
What We Think About Assets & Liabilities
However, no matter what economics says about assets and liabilities, we're wired to believe that we achieve solidity by being consistent. Having a string or fleet of cars might not be the right investment.
But having them alone might prove that the stability we seek becomes insatiability at its peak. When people become outrageously rich, some part of their reasoning is deadened to logic
Their sense of management becomes a bit lighter and this is because they know that life has allowed them to be personally wasteful. From acquiring real properties to buying luxury as well as junk.
The Mirage Of Owning Things
However, one of the reasons why wealthy people believe in buying everything they deem as an investment is because they want to secure stability. The evolution of man has shown that we've gone from being nomadic to being territorially definitive.
People want to be able to place a number on their achievements and have a certain figure in their bank accounts before they can be certain that they're actually wealthy.
This means that we're more focused on stability, ownership, continuity, and consistency. The success of the human race establishes different needs, the more we go, the more we become intentional about being established.
People no longer want to be uncertain.
They want to build wealth that even their third generation can keep enjoying, that is, transferring stability through the process of inheritance.
In reality, we mostly understand that complete stability is an illusion, but it's embedded in the core of our identity to still chase it with reckless abandon.
We keep ticking all the boxes and keep making the right moves, toward building, this is why we extol the virtue of diversification.
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