By Trent Hamm
The title of this article is my favorite single thing that Dave Ramsey has ever written.
The idea here is pretty simple: if you live in a challenging way right now, you’ll be able to enjoy incredible opportunities and advantages later. Almost every person who has accomplished something great in their life went through some very challenging period (or periods) to get there: executing obsessive hours of practice, living in poverty or near-poverty, spending countless late nights building up a project, and so on.
Often, we don’t see the hard work behind success.
We see the financially successful person and are envious of their money, overlooking what got them there. We see Bill Gates’ billions, but we forget that he spent his teen years, college years,... More...
