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Why $10,000,000 Dollars Would Destroy You
“If you have enemies, give ’em a lottery ticket.” -Anonymous
A few years ago, I was still a (very) amateur writer. I had a few dozen followers and a handful of views each day. That’s it.
I wanted, desperately, to be a big writer star. I wanted hundreds of thousands of people to read my stuff. I wanted to make a ton of money while I slept. Frankly, I wanted to be famous.
But do you know what would’ve happened if, one day, I woke up and saw that I had miraculously gained 1,000,000 followers with millions of dollars in the bank? Do you want to know what would’ve really happened?
I would lose all my followers in a matter of months.
They’d unsubscribe after reading my cringe-worthy posts. I’d lose the money, too. For sure. Yes, I’d buy my mom her dream house in Coronado Beach and pay the college tuition for all my siblings and cousins.
But you know the old phrase: “A fool and his money are soon parted.”
I’m not just being self-deprecating for no reason. That’s just how it would be. And this is how it is most everyone who gets a huge influx of money, influence, and power who isn’t ready for it yet. 2 years ago, I didn’t have the capacity for success yet. Frankly, I didn’t have the capacity for more than a couple hundred…
