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The American Woman Who Charges $30k for Baby Names Shows a Hidden Truth About Rich People
Her name is Taylor Humphery, but this post is about the psychology of success
Content creation will take you farther in business than hard work ever will.
I’ll never get tired of saying this — hard work is not the secret to success.
It sounds smart and right when you are young and naive. But as you grow older and have more experience, you start to see people who worked harder but had much less to show for it.
In school, I knew people who studied all the time and barely had good grades. Meanwhile, I aced most of my courses in school, not because I studied but because I understood the way I assimilate information.
That is a secret many people find out too late in life.
The same goes for money and wealth. It’s never about the product or service. It is not about what you do. It is about who you do it for.
Taylor Humphrey charges $30,000 to name babies.
People look at that and think, “I can do that”. Yes, anybody can do that. But why is she paid $30,000 to do it?
