From the desk of Victor Pride
Subj: The dangers of getting rich
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This article has been narrated by Victor Pride. Press the play button to listen while you read.
When you're rich you have more people that want to be your friend and partner.
But you have many more people who want to see you crash and burn and they want to make it happen…
You have to always be awake in your mind to know the dangers of getting rich.
When you're rich, you have more stealers who want to visit you at night when you're sleeping, so they can take all of your good things away.
These people want to be a parasite on your business. To be a good parasite they want you drunk like an alcohol man.
They want to catch you slipping, they cannot catch you while you're awake in your mind and sharp. They try to help your mind go to sleep with alcohol, smoking, things like this.
They want you to stop doing the work because when you stop doing the work you become dull and easy to steal from.
When you stop doing the work and become a lazy alcohol man who likes to just hang out and party, it's so easy to take everything from you.
Rich men have to work hard every day.
Getting rich doesn't mean you stop doing the work, it means keep doing what you're doing. Just do it better, more good, perfect.
Some men who become rich are easy to become lazy. For these men, the “hang out and party” types, getting rich is the beginning of the end…
At first they want 3 days to hang out, then it's a week, then it's a month, then all they want to do is hang out and never work.
Quickly after they stop doing the work that made them rich, they lose everything they had.
Like the Hollywood actors who get rich and famous…
First they have more friends, they start to have more parties, smoking, alcohol, heroin, then they lose their friends, they lose their house, they lose their fame, they lose everything they built.
And they lose it forever.
Success never smiles with a lazy man who wants to hang out all day.
Instead of making friends with the work, they make friends with alcohol, smoking, heroin, marijuana, and they become lost forever.
Smoke it one time and it's too late, you're done. It's too late for redemption, all you're left with is regrets.
“Please let time come back to me and I'll be smarter and not do it again.”
After that there is no way to save themselves. They decide to do a deal with the devil and sell their soul, they cannot buy it back.
If you go to the mountain to jump off you cannot magically jump back up the mountain. Decide once and it's done.
Rich men always have to have rules with themselves.
People who are hard with themselves, who have rules with themselves, who keep strict self-discipline, they seem like they're so strict and cold but actually they love themselves.
Through the rules they follow, they keep themselves away from the bad things and in the future they will not regret what they did today.
So if somebody is laughing about you always working, not hanging out and not partying, not drinking and not smoking, don't care about them.
They just want you to become bad like them. They are jealous that you are a good working man with a good working plan.
Since they cannot have what you have they want to take it away from you in the only way they know how, by turning you into them.
WORK = RESPECT
Everybody respects a hard-working man… but they will ALWAYS test and tempt a hard-working man and try to turn him into a lazy man, a parasite like them.
If you go somewhere and ask somebody for a job, they might think about it, they might say yes or no, but they will sure respect you for asking to work.
If you go somewhere and just ask somebody for money, they might punch you in the face.
Everybody respects work and nobody respects a parasite.
WORK IS MONEY AND MONEY IS WORK.
You cannot have money without working. If you want money, you have to work. If you stop working, you stop making money.
“One and done” money is a myth made by lazy people. Lifetime money doesn't exist, money comes from daily working.
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma are always working. If they stopped working, the money would go away and so would the respect.
I respect all men who work, even if they're poor, and I don't give a damn for any man who retired. Any retired man would be better off dead.
Respect yourself and you'll have respect from other people.
Respect comes from the accomplishment of work. The people who are always working always have respect from normal people.
Even the man who doesn't make a lot of money is always respected when it is known he is always working.
That's why nobody respects alcohol men, or heroin men, or cigarette men, or marijuana men.
Something like alcohol or cigarette smoking, they don't have to go to school, they don't have to learn a trade, they don't have to become masterful, all they have to do is smoke. It's easy and nobody respects easy.
Work is a great benefit to your life because when you work hard you can feel happy.
You will become more knowledgable with harder work, you will become more professional, you will become more expert, you will become more masterful.
With hard work, you can learn to become a great teacher. Other people are always willing to learn from those people who put in the time to become masterful.
When you keep working harder you will learn the way to respect yourself.
Always have pride in your work because every job is building the world right now.
Money is life, so just say “yeah” and work hard because it's better than the opposite: no work and no money and becoming nothing with anybody and not having any respect.
Even people selling in the market should have pride and do good work. The food they sell helps people grow, get big and healthy and strong. The clothes they sell keep us warm, or they cut our hair to make us look good.
Every work has good respect, even the people who clean the trash from the street. Without them we'll go outside and live in stink.
Always be busy building your self respect.
Always turn your back on people who want you to “take a break, enjoy life, hang out a little, drink this, smoke this, then let me slowly take everything you worked for.”
Ha ha.
No, no, no, no, no.
Always be awake in your mind at all times to see these “people” for what they are.
It's easy.
Just…
Until next time.
Your Man,
-Victor Pride
Hey Victor, will you be answering the questions from this post?
https://boldanddeterminedarchive.com/vol-2-paperback/
This will go down as a B&D Classic.
People see reading as taking a break and that’s wrong. Take from this article and then work it into your life.
Thanks for the needed motivation brother.
Thanks Victor for this cool article. I like the narration.
- Sebastian
Awesome
Amazing work, I really enjoy your voice. The podcasts are so great and this article is so relevant as always.
Laziness is a thief with a different name (but the same result), he doesn’t hold a gun, he comes with smiles and golden promises. “You work too hard, you need a break.” “You need a vacation.” “I just want you to be happy.”
But they don’t seem very happy at all.
But pretty soon if you listen, you’ll be sitting on your couch in a beanbag chair eating Doritos and watching cartoons. Always be vigilant against the thieves of your time and life energy.
Excellent advice, Vic.
Your content is a big inspiration.
God bless you Victor
There’s a reason why people look away from bums.
Yoyoyo Uncle Victor Pride, great article and podcast as always!
Great article Vic!
You seem to be one of the very few people, who publish their words, and mention importance of WORK ETHIC!
Thank you Victor.
Great article Uncle Vic,
You gotta do more article narrations, EPIC!
You the Man,
RhinoRyan
P.S. Will Volume three of B&D books be out before Christmas time?
This is why you never tell anyone what you do for a living let alone how much you generate even if your ego happens to get in the way. Always downgrade and make people think you are average or poor.
When people know you are rich, you become target on your back and all of sudden, your acquaintances will be your “best friends” and you will get multiple frivolous lawsuits on your ass and so on.
Protect and cover your ass and always blend in with the crowd and never reveal how much you make to others.
We live in a funny world where some rich people will act poor and some poor people will try to act rich.
Great points!
Hi victor. What’s your opinion on learning a trade such as Electrician? I’m a young man aged 18 and want to build my own business. I feel that it is an asset to have a skill and master something rather than just learn random knowledge (most university degrees). Thanks a lot man, your work is incredible!
When you mention the alcohol men, heroin men, cigarette men or marijuana men it reminded me of the movie Pinocchio with Pleasure Island.
The boys there get drunk and do all those things and become donkeys.
It’s one children’s movie that actually has a deeper message. I guess this is because is was written way back before people were overly sensitive babies.
Respect,
D
Uncle Vic,
I know it’s not your area of expertise, but as an avid, money from the internet proponent.
What is your take on Crypto-Currency, do you own any, or recommend it?
Just curious, i’m sure others are too.
Thanks,
RhinoRyan
Please put all the “FCG” online again.
Agree what Andre says, FCG needs to come back.
Good article. A article about how to let go of Allergens would make me a happy man. (Fasting..?)
- Flo
Thank you for the excellent post, Victor! Work is indeed everything. It gives you a purpose in life, self-respect, constant new experiences, mind stability, development and so much more than just money. That’s why people who have a lot of money keep working anyway. They know if they stopped working they’d bring psychological death upon themselves. But it should be a work based on freedom and unique self-expression, of course, otherwise our psyche would die even faster.
Hi Uncle Vic,
Thanks 4 sharing this article with us. This article is one of the best article I’ve come across and read in recent years. Please, keep it up. Shalom!
I’m Ameh from North-Central Nigeria.
What happened to work more versus work hard haha? I guess you decided that more work doesn’t trigger emotional response like hard work does because that’s how most people understand more work, as hard work. HARD WORK IN THE GYM AND MORE WORK AT HOME = GREATNESS.
I’m a cyclist by the way but pushing yourself to the max with anything physical whether it’s gym, cycling, running or MMA is all hard work. Pushing yourself in your home office is more work.
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A lazy man said “I want to make money when I sleep!”
So he tried and failed and realized what it would take to earn his sleeping money.
He worked and worked and didn’t sleep for years.
He finally found his money that could come to him in his sleep and he was happy so he took a nap.
He dreamed a nightmare that all his money went away.
He doesn’t sleep anymore.
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If you want to be rich to be lazy, just be lazy. Rich will force you to not be lazy. To not be lazy means you don’t even wish to be lazy. If you want to be rich you must want work like they are the same thing because everyone gets what they want. Just like the man said… “Work=Money”
Money goes away when it’s spent because you have time to spend it.
All day working = no time spending
All day being busy = no time sitting around jerking off, eating food, crying about memories, wasting time thinking.
Work is the opposite of lazy.
If work=make money,
Lazy=spend money.
Poor people say they want to make money but they just want to spend it because they’re lazy. They’d be making money if they wanted it.
“If I won the lottery” is what they always say.
“If I had a million dollars”.
It takes nothing to spend but it takes everything to earn which is why the poor worry about what they want to buy next and the rich worry about how they’re gonna make more money.
They say do what you love but it’s hard to love doing anything if all you want is to win.
However
If work=winning then work is easy. It’s as easy as waking up and winning if you see it for what it really is.
A lot of entrepreneurs struggle with loving the work because they only want to win but they don’t see the connection.
Just like going to the gym builds your muscles and fucking a pussy makes you cum, work makes you rich and all three feel about the same. The reason so many people struggle with the work is because of time.
Fucking a pussy and cumming = 20 minutes. Everyone does it.
Lifting weights and building muscle = Weeks/months. Some people do it.
Working hard and making loads of money = Years and years. Few people do it.
If the payoff from entrepreneurship came as quickly and as directly as shooting off a load onto some tinder date’s face, every man would be richer than Richie Rich and play Jenga with racks of $100 bills.
Some people say it’s about timing, but they’re only half right. If you’re always there, the right time will come.
Timing is important but if you’re around today, tomorrow, and every day for the next 10 years, the “right time” will come along and it will look like “good timing” to a fool looking in.
The only way to stay around 10 years is to love it and you love it when work=winning. That way you can always be working, just like the man said.
Great reply, the more time it takes the less people want to do it.
Working smart > Working Hard
All the motivation and work in the world won’t turn something that was never meant to be into a diamond.
It seems that many kids don’t understand it.
If you success has not come in 1-3 years of working, it won’t come even after 10 despite your work because…your project simply sucks.
Yeah, it’s important to identify the smartest/most effective route forward.
I never built much muscle by listening to the bros on my football team and by just “working hard” at the gym. It wasn’t until I spent countless hours online researching the science of muscle building that I was able to implement effective strategies and put on 20 lbs of lean mass.
However, hard work is still a big part of the equation.
You are totally wrong about your 1-3 year statement…. there are a myriad of celebrated inventions, feats, and victories throughout history that took much longer than 3 years to achieve. They all required hard work in addition to intelligent minds.
I was specifically talking about building a blog/site.
Obviously other things may take longer.
If something sucks, it will suck forever.
You can pivot as much as you want…maybe you will get lucky…but more likely you won’t.
Love the podcast style and the sounds. Great post. Always be working.
HahahahaHA.
Enjoyed listening to this while reading. You are creative like a mother fucker.
I get your sense of humor too.
NononononoNO.
I miss your podcast.
Joined badnet.
Looking forward to writing.
Thanks for the article, music, and spoken word.
Marc
Lol. *FUNNY STUFF*!
Couldn’t stop laughing!
LOVE your voice and artistic ability in this neatly done podcast Mr. Pride.
Straight up *GANGSTA*!
It’s so truthful you can’t help but laugh for how true it is about people…
You hit the nail in the coffin man.
Lol at this “… alcohol men, or heroin men, or cigarette men, or marijuana men.”
So TRUE!
And this: “Something like alcohol or cigarette smoking, they don’t have to go to school, they don’t have to learn a trade, they don’t have to become masterful, all they have to do is smoke. It’s easy and nobody respects easy.”
LOL. NAILED IT!
~ Bro. Jed
I completely agree with most of the article, I literally had the LA experience of having people over all the time, getting used, and failing to pay my $6,700 rent. It was a learning experience that I am actually thankful for, and I’m still recovering from it as I blew all of my personal money recently when I got depressed (like $300k). I’m getting out of it and it’s fine now though.
Anyway, I do have to say that drugs and alcohol can beneficial at times AT LEAST FOR ME. There’s times I smoked weed and become a paranoid fuck and sometimes it helped me get shit done. I have to say though 95% of the time weed did not help me achieve my goals, although it helped open my mind when I was 15-16 and started smoking it. I don’t regret it and I know I will still smoke it occassionally in the future. It’s like wine, my fiance and I will drink wine sometimes at night, not enough to get drunk (although we have gotten drunk before which had led to issues), but now we are more subtle.
I think I smoked weed and did cocaine sometimes because I was testing myself mentally to see how low it would take me. Because I remember when I would do coke sometimes I would just feel super sad but I would get over it and then realize that everything is fine. Honestly if you can avoid doing it all together then that is of course the ideal situation, but I think for some people it can help them at that moment in time.
The biggest change in my life was finding my soulmate Denise which has been a massive blessing. It was definitely hard and I realized the last 6 months of my life was involving my spirit preparing me for meeting her in some way or another, maybe that sounds weird but that’s just how I feel.
I find that the times I took more serious drugs, which wasn’t too often, but I’ve used cocaine numerous times and tried shrooms once, it didn’t do me much good initially. Although I have friends that have straight up had completely life changing experiences from shrooms.
The thing that has gotten me working hard now is being with Denise. She doesn’t push me to work or make money necessarily verbally, it’s just that beign with her makes me want to work hard. Now i wake up at 630 am almost everyday not even on purpose, we both do, and shes investing in one of my companies because she had a successful background and shes older (46). I know it sounds so offbeat and random and theres a lot more i will tell u later but yeah that is what ive been trhoguh lately and my life has gotten so much better now.
Fucking brilliant.
Your actual voice sounds different, compared to the way I built your persona and imagining a certain vocal presence in my mind through your articles you have posted.
It sounds more subtle and sophisticated. It took me for a surprise. Keep writing. Few blogs that mean something.
Am a lady but I’m in love with your blog
Uncle Vic,
Strange for me to come across this content now, as I saw Joe Rogan’s “Sober October” podcast earlier today, but was searching your site for something totally unrelated moments ago. The headline and the message of the article don’t match, but it seems like fate for me to hear this podcast today.
I plan on combining 30 DoD with sober October and doing whatever it takes. This article was just the extra kick in the nuts I needed to see reality even clearer, and I greatly appreciate it.
I feel as if lady fate is calling my name and I have ignored her for long enough.
“I plan on combining 30 DoD with sober October and doing whatever it takes.”
Awesome idea. October 1st falls on a Monday this year. It’s perfect.
What you have taught me since I stumbled upon your godly blog some months ago beats everything I’ve been told by my teachers family and people all around me for most of my life. I refer to your past works and gain new insights each and every time readying me to be a master. Thank you for being the guide to me and other men around the globe.