I'll always say that there are no perfect money lessons, and neither are there books that are magically authored to showcase the ultimate knowledge this is needed in life to thrive.
people cannot avoid failures in their quest to be financially free and this is because we cannot see the future, it's twists or turns, and we can only predict or permutate some likely or unlikely outcomes from past occurrences.
We make plans while making predictions, especially when there's a certain level of uncertainty we cannot ignore. Sometimes we're right and sometimes we're wrong but most of the time, we're always hard done by the things we predicted that eventually came out wrong.
No one is immune to wrong predictions,
......and when Over 50% of our predictions are right, we take it as a win especially if there are smaller chances of failure that we can live with. This is to say that we mostly don't care if we lose, provided our wins are more than our losses then, we cumulatively see it as a win. No one likes to be wrong, especially when they've tailored their resources to suit their predictions.
However, we take risks in life, the people whose risks turn out well are always considered geniuses, and people who did everything right but were never lucky are given the stare. That said, failure and success can be two peas in a pod, very close relatives, but their relationship is perfectly inelastic, sharing boundaries but seemingly different in the effect of their result.
Failure is a result and so is success.
Sometimes none of these results perfectly depicts the work we've put in. Some people work so hard, yet they still fail while some others do very little, yet they'll succeed. This is where the element of luck comes in. Of a truth, we mostly overlook the element of luck in life until we do everything right and still fail.
There are times we just need one ingredient to crown our efforts, the fact that we don't determine if we'd get this ingredient or not is one of the harshest realities of life, life's harsh and our reality is not logical, the concept behind money isn't rational, because value isn't universal, sometimes it's difficult to place a valuation on what's the right kind of effort.
When a person toils and almost gets within a distance of success and fails because of the things they couldn't control, it's normal for society not to see the things they couldn't control, we expect perfection from others, even when are not as perfect as we might think. But like I said earlier, we're blind to the sacrifices that go on, backstage.
These sacrifices are the true stories behind the opportunity costs, the leverages, the denials, and the pain of constantly grinding. This is why people hold on to their stories of struggles till the end of time. Now one thing I believe in life is that we are all risk-takers, whether we're saving money or investing it.
We might feel some mental security for doing one and not doing the other, but it's all an illusion of the mind. This is because when we invest we feel it's all coming back and when we spend to satiate our desires then it's completely gone. Nevertheless, seeing oneself as a money genius is pure foolery.
No one is a genius, even when we seem to have an impeccable track record, it's all an illusion because the only thing that keeps us tethered to these beliefs is the inability to see the future, it's a blessing and a curse at the same time. Some of the things we deem to fail, might not.
Sometimes, we allow the fear we feel at the moment to dictate or influence our predictions, for the future. This isn't to say emotions are entirely bad. I prefer to live in the moment, and a lot of people do too, this is because there's no time as important as the present.
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