
Chapter 1.
So, what do you think about this quote?
"The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering ... but in the development of the soul." Alexander Solzhenitsyn as quoted in The Good and Beautiful Life
Our author meets Ben, a person who spent his life's ambition in the opposite direction: absolutely hell bent on prospering at all costs. And it has cost him quite a deal: wives, children, friendships, and a harshness inside. He made his first million by the age of 25 years old.
That's not bad, I'm thinking. Wouldn't you like to make a million dollars in a few years time? Isn't that really our dream? I know we're all saints, but consider for a moment. Wouldn't you really like to get a million dollars? TV shows have been written around what you would give up for a million dollars.
Isn't that the truth? You would have to give up something to make that million dollars? I know the myth out there. You could go ahead and live the way you're living. You could just tweak a few moments in life to get that million. You could pray for money and it would become attracted to you somehow? You could still place "nice guy" and do it.