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Everything You’ve Been Told is a Lie.
What my grandparents, my dad and richest people on earth have to do with you
My grandparents survived the Second World War, the devastating famine after the war, which took almost the 3rd of the Ukrainian population, and communist persecutions.
Their life philosophy was “work hard”. And they did work harder than anyone I know.
Their life has been nothing but the struggle for survival.
Cultivating potatoes, vegetables and fruit on the acres of land, tending domestic animals like pigs, chickens, gees, ducks, goats was all they did all the time.
It might seem like they had a big farm and should have been rich.
But no. They weren’t rich at all. They just didn’t starve.
My childhood memories are the ones of poverty and scarcity.
So the idea of working hard is not all it takes to succeed.
Some people say, you have to be smart to succeed in life.
Well, my dad is one of the smartest people I know.
He has two college degrees, he is brilliant with numbers and math ( which is genius in itself, in my view) and has worked as an engineer for about 30 years.
