How To Learn The Wealth Language Nobody Taught You | Vivian Tu

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12Anybody who wants to have money, anybody who wants to have richness can get there. But it certainly is not as easy as everyone on the internet makes it seem. It's not rah, rah, Amazon dropshipping, rah, rah, wholesale real estate, rah, rah, buy some life insurance and you're good to go. Like, that's just not it. And I think a big conversation that like we don't talk about is like proximity. Right. So like in my life now, I have many rich friends and those rich friends provide me additional rich opportunities. So I got to go to the U.S. Open on a bank's dime because my fiance worked with a guy who is at an investment bank.

1:02And he had four tickets, took him, his wife, my fiance and myself. Those tickets are thousands of dollars. Right. Like they're very, very expensive. I have friends who had an incredible accountant, had, you know, great team in terms of financials for business. And they were like, you should talk to my team. That's how I got hooked up with my business manager. If you don't have that proximity to people who have money, who've done it, who played the playbook, how are you going to learn it? because sure if you are a young person growing up low income and you want to make smart money decisions work very hard in school get good grades do the american dream thing and you go you get to harvard okay you get to harvard the rich kids still don't want to be friends with you because you can't afford to split the table at the club on friday night you can't afford to pay for the dues for your finals club or whatever they call it.

2:00Like you don't have that money to get you there. So I think the process of becoming wealthy and becoming rich and having money, it's available to anyone, but the trajectory and the timeline is very, very different. Interesting. So proximity alone isn't enough is what I'm hearing you say, because you could have the grades or the skills and the proximity, but if you don't have the money still, then people may not what are you what are you saying so i'm saying that proximity makes it easier yes so if you grow up rich and your parents are you know very very tough and they're like we're not leaving a penny to you guys you still grew up around all those rich people you still access contacts yes information exactly and you still got all those soft skills whereas someone whose parents are like i will leave you every dollar I have, but they grow up lower middle class.

2:55They don't have that proximity that you had growing up. It's like a language. You didn't get to hear the language, see how things were done, see how deals were talked about. Even if you weren't involved in doing the deals or paying for the things, you witnessed and experienced it over a decade or two. So on Wall Street, we call them execution or knife and fork guys. So execution guys are the technical ones. They're like the ones that are actually good at the job, right? And then you got knife and fork guys. And the reason they're called knife and fork is because they know, they have all of those elegances that if you don't grow up watching that day in, day out, you don't know.

3:39They know that the littlest utensils here and the biggest one comes in closer to your plate. They know how to take the napkin and fold it politely over their seat or like over their lap. They know that the dessert spoon goes this way and they have those soft skills that are kind of like the tell of how you can kind of spot another rich person. Like I can smell the rich on someone. Really? Oh yeah. But there's a lot of like fake rich also, isn't there? Oh, tons. So can you smell the rich and the fake rich? What's the difference between people who are actually rich and those who are acting like they're rich.

4:18People who are actually rich, like you rich. Sorry, guys. That's good. That's good. They're not concerned about impressing you.

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