What are you afraid of?

When I ask people why they haven't started working towards getting rich? They typically have no answer. If I persist with the question the answer comes up , I do not know how, or fear of failure. When I try to get them to be more specific, they can not. So the problem is they just do not know why. Here's is my theory.

I think the problem is that we are not even sure where to start. Investing seems so complicated and overwhelming. We all are afraid of the unknown. Most people fail to get rich because they never learned how. No one taught us about getting rich, not our high schools, not our colleges, not the universities. Rich people learned how to get rich from their parents or were self taught. If they are lucky they had a mentor. Most of us hesitate when we are dealing with an emergency situation such as during a medical emergency, we look for help, we call in a doctor or paramedic.

The difference between you and your doctor is that the doctor learned what was needed to treat patients and went through an extensive on the job, supervised training (internship) to be able to treat the patient and handle the situation with confidence. I think we can agree that with the same training and education you could be a doctor. Making money is the same way, if you knew what to do and when to do it, you would then have the self-confidence to use your resources to become rich. Treating patients and making life and death decisions has got to be scarier than investing for your future.