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Country United States |
Language English |
Subject Demographics |
Genre Non-fiction |
Publisher Doubleday |
Publication date |
January 2008 |
Media type Hardback & Paperback |
The Middle-Class Millionaire: The Rise of the New Rich and How They are Changing America (Doubleday) is a book that chronicles the evolution of America’s middle-class over the last twenty years, and at how a portion of the middle-class is pulling away from the rest by amassing significant wealth. Meanwhile, their value... |
Written by Lewis Schiff (The Armchair Millionaire) and Russ Allen Prince (Cultivating the Middle-class Millionaire: Why Financial Advisors Are Failing Their Wealthy Clients and What They Can Do About It) the book introduces an entirely new way of understanding why certain trends are gaining momentum and where that mome... |
The book shows us how this subset of America, labeled the Middle-Class Millionaire, manages to thrive with one foot in the world they came from (the middle-class) and one foot in the world they now inhabit (the wealthy). |
The Middle-Class Millionaire is based on extensive personal interviews with more than 3,500 American households in 2006. It provides a three-dimensional portrait of a previously unrecognized demographic group: the emerging affluent middle class. |
Key concepts[edit] |
Millionaire’s Intelligence: There are four behaviors that middle-class millionaires exhibit that appear to be linked to their success. These qualities have origins in classic middle-class values but they have applied them in uncommon ways. |
The Influence of Affluence: Because the middle-class millionaire is both willing and able to try new things (products, services, places and ways to live, etc.) they are an important indicator for how the world might be changing in the years to come. As Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize–winning economist, once suggested,... |
The Hierarchy of Values: It’s easy to understand where the new rich are going to have the greatest impact when you understand their hierarchy of values. They share them with the rest of the middle class. |
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Her childhood friend. Her savior. Her boyfriend. |
Even after Camden leaves their hometown to chase his dream to be a musician, Aubrey can’t imagine her life without Camden and his family. |
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Jax Carmichael doesn’t have time for a relationship…much less love. |
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The trouble with being involved with hypnosis is that it also attracts many from the fringes of "alternative health" and "new age philosophy". |
One of the commonly stated opinions from this outer fringe is that people should always trust their intuition and that somehow intuition is either infallible or divinely inspired. |
Why This Is Dumb |
You don't have to look too hard to find times when your intuition, your hunches, are simply wrong. There's abundant literature showing how we all fall prey to fallacious thinking and post hoc rationalisations for our actions. |
Intuition in Business |
The other frequently seen variant of this is where someone suggests that intuition is a great tool in business, and perhaps cites a successful entrepreneur, perhaps Richard Branson, saying that they rely heavily on their intuition. |
Why That is Also Dumb |
The business situation misses the obvious point that successful folk can rely on their intuition because they have developed it over time, and have honed their skill through experience. Or put simply, these people can trust their intuition because their intuition is trustworthy. And even then they make mistakes and you... |
The bankruptcy courts and cemeteries are also full of people who trusted their intuition, but lacked the experience or knowledge that would make those hunches reliable. |
What Should You Do Instead? |
Use your intuition by all means - just don't rely on it exclusively. And when you use it in unfamiliar territory expect it to be frequently wrong or misguided. When doing something new, use your whole brain to learn and understand what you're about to do. |
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