Ramit Sethi
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then can you start to develop a new relationship with money?
It's almost like a new taste bud.
I'm never going to tell you to eat tomatoes if you hate tomatoes, but I am going to teach you maybe you like okra and we can develop a new taste for that.
Finally, the dreamer.
The dreamer believes that success is one deal away.
If we just close this deal, if I just get this thing, and they tend to fall into get-rich-quick schemes.
Lots of scams, MLMs, a lot of crypto shitcoin scams, like all this BS.
But they are extremely resistant to calm, low-cost, long-term investing.
In other words, the way that most people build real wealth.
They think it's boring.
They even have little phrases like, I don't want to be stuck in a nine to five like those suckers.
I'm like, that sucker makes 10 times what you make.
What are you talking about?
But they have simply been surrounded with the idea, one more deal and I'll finally make it.
They must be hard to be married to.
It's impossible.
It's really, really difficult.
Not only do they not want to talk about money, when they finally do talk about money, they're almost living in a different world.
Often you will find that dreamers can only dream because they are being subsidized by someone in their life, usually their partner.
And if their partner were to leave, for example...