Some fun stuff you've found...

[IamInuit]

With thanks to my friend Stretch for this.

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Tom Corley, on his website RichHabitsInstitute.com, outlines a few of the differences between the habits of the rich and the poor.

1. 70% of wealthy eat less than 300 junk food calories per day. 97% of poor people eat more than 300 junk food calories per day. 23% of wealthy gamble. 52% of poor people gamble.

2. 80% of wealthy are focused on accomplishing some single goal. Only 12% of the poor do this.

3. 76% of wealthy exercise aerobically four days a week. 23% of poor do this.

4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% of poor people.

5. 81% of wealthy maintain a to-do list vs. 19% of poor.

6. 63% of wealthy parents make their children read two or more non-fiction books a month vs. 3% of poor.

7. 70% of wealthy parents make their children volunteer 10 hours or more a month vs. 3% of poor.

8. 80% of wealthy make Happy Birthday calls vs. 11% of poor.

9. 67% of wealthy write down their goals vs. 17% of poor.

10. 88% of wealthy read 30 minutes or more each day for education or career reasons vs. 2% of poor.

11. 6% of wealthy say what’s on their mind vs. 69% of poor.

12. 79% of wealthy network five hours or more each month vs. 16% of poor.

13. 67% of wealthy watch one hour or less of TV every day vs. 23% of poor.

14. 6% of wealthy watch reality TV vs. 78% of poor.

15. 44% of wealthy wake up three hours before work starts vs. 3% of poor.

16. 74% of wealthy teach good daily success habits to their children vs. 1% of poor.

17. 84% of wealthy believe good habits create opportunity luck vs. 4% of poor.

18. 76% of wealthy believe bad habits create detrimental luck vs. 9% of poor.

19. 86% of wealthy believe in lifelong educational self-improvement vs. 5% of poor.

20. 86% of wealthy love to read vs. 26% of poor.

Interesting because it is money that stops the poor % rates in pretty much all of those comparisons. Even number 18 no doubt includes functional hard core substance abusers who require little good luck and can counter any bad.

[Stickgrappler]

Yeah agree with you, but some habits like reading more could be ingrained by watching less reality tv or exercising more by watching less tv (or while watching tv) etc


A friend commented that reading non-fiction is misleading... making one think fiction is bad... the literary classics are full of fiction (A Christmas Carol, Moby Dick, etc)

[El Kabong]

Big A (a stutterer) and Louis 'Twitchels' Centanni (a man who suffers from Tourette's) "read" the news. The stuttering makes Twitchel's Tourette's act up worse




Must....catch....my breath.....oh Jesus

[IamInuit]

[Spicoli]

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[Stickgrappler]

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