Is it better to get rich slowly or get rich fast? The answer is simple: Achieving financial success does require a process that is often long and tiring.
An epic end result is always built through a series of long, consistent processes, full of problems and obstacles in the middle, and then tries to find solutions to overcome those obstacles. Not only end there, most of the people get stuck again because the solution fails to achieve the expected results.
Get Rich Slowly Shapes Your Character, Get Rich Fast Shapes Your Ego
The long journey process, and often full of failures and dozens of problems that keep getting in the way, is a bridge that must be tread with all diligence and high resilience, in order to achieve impressive financial success.
There is never a thrilling final result, which is achieved without consistent and diligent struggle. And there is never a final financial success that can be snatched away instantly, or suddenly dropped from the sky.
How The Digital Era Affect Us
Unfortunately in this era; an instant mentality that wants to success quickly is everywhere. A number of experts on digital behavior say that a person’s habit of scrolling through the smartphone screen every day is slowly growing the instinct to always get something instantly, just like when they are playing a cellphone (Mendoza, 2018).
Research on digital behavior shows that most people become addicted to smartphones because of the smartphone screen’s ability to build “instant gratification” or be able to provide instant pleasure.
Just by scrolling, we can instantly enjoy what we want to see, hear and read. With just a tap and click, we can immediately get what we want. With a smartphone in hand, it seems as if anything we want to enjoy can be present instantly. The power of presenting instant gratification is the key to why the smartphone product, with all the apps in it, has become one of the most phenomenal products in business history of all time.
However, the smartphone’s ability to provide instant gratification turned out to have an unexpected dark impact. The researchers wrote: a person’s habit of always scrolling through the cellphone screen, slowly trains the person’s nerve cells, to always expect instant results. Just like what you usually get when playing cellphones.
Digital Behavior Impact
Through the habit of scrolling the cellphone screen, this person’s nerve cells are slowly trained and encouraged to continue to hunt for instant gratification. In the long run, this reality leaves a grim impact: an instant mentality, or always wanting to get fit instantly. These things are slowly growing among many people, who are always with their smartphone screens.
On the other hand, digital behavior researchers also show the habit of many people who are always rushing when playing cellphones. Rushing means always jumping from one channel to another at a fast pace. Clicking, scrolling, and tapping, this pattern repeats itself every day. This kind of pattern slowly also trains a person to do something in a hurry, all jumping, fast paced, just like the habit of scrolling the cellphone screen.
The Result:
The attention span or the attention span of people who like to play cellphones is getting shorter. In just a matter of seconds, someone can move around enjoying a variety of content on their cellphone screen. A very short attention span makes most people no longer able to focus, enjoy something deeply.
Rushed behavior patterns and shorter attention spans make it difficult for a person to cultivate long and deep concentration. The fast-paced pattern of playing cellphone behavior makes a person impatient, and easily bored when facing a long and tiring process.
The unexpected grim impact of the digital habits and behavior of today’s young people. The habit of scrolling the cellphone screen that keeps repeating itself every day, turns out to leave the following behavior:
- Passion for hunting instant gratification.
- The habit of rushing and jumping around when enjoying the cellphone screen.
- Attention span is getting shorter; and difficulty establishing long and deep focus and concentration.
All of these impacts are inevitably the antithesis or formidable enemies of efforts to appreciate the long and tortuous process of achieving financial success.
On the contrary, all of these impacts will actually be successful in growing an instant mentality, which wants to get something quickly and instantly; without having to struggle to build long and tedious focus and concentration.
The Reality
Unfortunately, being successful is not as easy as scrolling the screen.
The process of getting rich slowly requires a variety of key elements that are sadly now disappearing by smartphone culture. The key elements to getting rich slowly are:
- The toughness to perform “delayed gratification skills”.
- The ability to do something in a planned, focused manner, starting from simple first steps, but is carried out systematically and gradually.
- The ability to build a long attention span; able to build deep focus, and can cultivate long-term concentration to do something that is often boring.
Those are the three crucial skills to get rich slowly.
Bottom Line
But unfortunately, as described in this article, these three important skills are slowly being destroyed by the habit of playing smartphones. In which, always rushing and searching for content that is full of instant gratification traps.
A dark paradox then emerges painfully: when the speed of the gadget is getting fiercer. Then, our ability to carry out a long and consistent process, becomes dead in sorrow and misery.
