The principles of success are almost unknown.  Most of what is written about success is really what sounds good, not what works naturally.

There is almost no real science research about why people are successful, especially financially.

The self help industry is an industry of illusion spinners.  They sell what people want to believe, not what is true.  Usually what people want to believe is that which is the most distant to reality, not what is closest to it!

Endless websites say they know how you too can become successful… for the lowlowlow price of onlyonlyonly x$.  Come on!

Working hard is not it; it’s not why people are successful.  Some inheritors are successful in what they undertake and didn’t work hard at it; others burn out the family fortune in years.

Good looks are not it.  They may help but for every Hollywood star there are the beautiful hundreds who are still valets and waiters who didn’t get lucky.

Talent is not it.  See above.

So what is it?

That’s a good question.  The first thing to realize is that almost no one out there knows.

You might get a report, or an entire book, about how millionaire’s think but for all you know (this is the classic fallacy of confusing correlation with causation, the bane of science research) the millionaires are thinking that way BECAUSE of what is happening to them and what they are doing, not the other way around.

Realizing that, where does that leave you?

It leaves you with a good question.