Am I going to end living a average life?
Lately, I’ve started feeling like my life is headed toward an ordinary, average path. I was born into a middle-class family and grew up studying as much as I could while handling family responsibilities. Now I earn around 80k per month, which I’m grateful for, but sometimes comparison hits me hard. When I watch vlogs of billionaires—like Ambani’s wedding, where even the groom’s outfit costs around 200 crores—I can’t help but wonder. I did the math and realized I’d need to work nearly 10 years just to earn 1 crore. Even with smart investing, reaching 10 crores itself feels like a huge milestone. So my mind keeps asking: Is there any real chance for someone like me to become a billionaire someday? Or am I destined to live the same routine, average life forever?
Here's an honest, but hard question you need to ask yourself.
What have you done that makes you think you're on track to become a billionaire?
Your answer, will tell you what you need to know.
Billionaires don't happen overnight. Some happen over generations, others happen through luck of the draw, they don't go into life thinking "I'm going to come out of this a billionaire".
The paradox is that we're conditioned to believe that if manifest something hard enough, we'll eventually manifest it into reality, but on the other hand, when you chase something so bad, it tends to avoid you completely.
Solution? Your intention in everything matters.
All this isn't to say, becoming a billionaire is not possible or is evil, but the question that you need to ask yourself is, whether money and status are really the only things that define you?
Most of the world population lies in the average range for any variable, including wealth, height, weight, looks, athletic ability, IQ, described by the central limit theorem of statistics.
Extreme values of any of these variables are outliers and are less likely to occur. The more extreme the value, the lesser and lesser its likelihood of occurring.
Having a billion in earnings, is a very extreme value, as you calculated yourself. In fact, in a world of 8 billion people, there are only about 3000 billionaires in the world. Half of them just got born to existing billionaire parents.
So likelihood of being in that 1500 of self-made billionaires is roughly 0.0000188 %.
So why do you possibly think that it could be you to do that? What have you done so far in life, to give you the belief that you're on track for being in that 0.0000188% of the world population?
Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani, Anant Ambani showed early success from young age. They got born into the family of Dhirubhai Ambani, an existing billionaire, which severely boosted the trajectory of their life to billionaire-hood.
And most importantly, when you know that it's such an unlikely event, why do you even want to be a billionaire?
Introspect and think about it, to understand what is it that what you're trying to prove to the world, and to yourself, by going for such an extreme target? Where is that desire coming from - from what sense of inadequacy?
That self knowledge and understanding will be more valuable than any gold 😊
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