48 Immigrant Mentality Can you get it?
b'Today I want to talk about immigrant mentality. We often hear it referred to, but what is it, what is it derived from? While it\\u2019s so critical and so beneficial to people who are immigrants, can you have it or can you develop it? They are a great example of success, both personal and business success. That\\u2019s the topic for today.\\n\\n\\n\\nImmigrants have their first Breakthrough Success when they enter the US. They see opportunity and continue to be drawn by business success.\\n\\nThink in terms of immigrant mentality as they come to this country, the incredible speed that they rise in education, income, wealth, prestige, etc., whether it be in their community or in the general area. These advancements that they have: Do you have it? Do you have those ingredients? Can you get it? I want to describe a little bit at the end about how I got mine, in essence, even though I wasn\\u2019t an immigrant. What changed me, and how did it do it? How it might, and how you might recognize it for yourself.\\n\\nYes, the success of immigrants as they move from some other country. In most cases, they speak another language. They have to learn English or get better at it; they build themselves through their own businesses; their children excel. You hear some of these stories of these children that come from environments and backgrounds that they basically have little to no education \\u2013 they come here and excel in our education system without even starting out with the language.\\n\\nWhat did they do and how did they do it? Yes, they worked hard, but let\\u2019s get a little bit deeper than that. Anyone born in this country with all the advantages that you already have\\u2014you already have the languages, you\\u2019re already in the school, you know where everything is\\u2014it\\u2019s almost a shame for anybody at all to complain. If you can see around yourself, people who come here with a foreign language and excel, and you don\\u2019t. If you see any of this, then inquire to yourself: What is the mindset of the immigrant, and can you get it?\\n\\nFirst, where do they come from and why? Look at the comparison of opportunities. What they\\u2019re looking at is the mobility in this country that they see that we don\\u2019t necessarily see. They have the chance that they see to move just not from 9 to 5 jobs or to excel in it. In a sense, they\\u2019re hungry. They move from another country, they\\u2019re hungry for success, they also live generally debt-free so they don\\u2019t have those stresses, etc., and they make ends meet, but that\\u2019s part of the discipline that they build into their system.\\n\\nThey\\u2019re enterprising, and they\\u2019re determined to build it for themselves. They\\u2019re not relying on anything else or anybody else. The idea, in general, is to build it for yourself. I know there are exceptions. I don\\u2019t want to bother with those, because we\\u2019re not looking at a political debate. We\\u2019re looking at how to succeed, how you can succeed, and how you can build your business newer, better, stronger.\\n\\nInterestingly, the immigrants find opportunities anywhere. They work at opportunities that are often built and they build them to last. It could be that they\\u2019re plumbers, or electricians, or they go into the computer fields. Almost anything, the sciences, etc. They find out what needs to be done in order for them to prepare themselves to accomplish something, and they get it done.\\n\\nHow do they push themselves to this extent? Their determination and drive for success is enviable. Not just to get enough, but to be far superior to where they had come from and where they had first thought. One of my propositions is they\\u2019re seeing things that we don\\u2019t tend to look at. That is, they come here and they\\u2019re completely in a new environment, so they\\u2019re not constrained by the neighborhood that they\\u2019re living in. When we\\u2019re born in this country, we tend to be in a neighborhood and our environment has a very strong influence on what we think we can do or what we have aspirations for.\\n\\nThey\\u2019re from a completely different environment,'