Think Like No One Else

Working and Thinking at a Higher Level, No Matter What Your Work Is

There’s a phrase that I have heard a lot in discussions about money management:

“If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”

It is attributed to well-known financial writer, speaker, and radio host Dave Ramsey. The gist of the quote is that in order to have the kind of bountiful and secure lifestyle that very few have, you have to be willing to take steps that few others take, in order to make sure it comes to fruition.

It’s not an analysis of the only way to become fabulously independently wealthy — there are those who strike it rich without having to learn hardcore money management. But it is a simple piece of advice that is not unique to the world of finances — it’s advice that extends to many arenas where you might be trying to make progress. In order to progress further than most others, you have to be willing to do things in a way that most others are not.

In my experience, the following maxim has served me well:

If you are willing to think like no one else, later you can think like no one else.