CHAPTER 10Growth, cycles and the econosystem

Getting in touch with the network of minds.

Previous chapters in part II explored the traps that are holding you back from being free. This chapter will give you a glimpse of life outside the Income Trap, free of short-term thinking. When you are free of the nine to five, when you don’t need to go to work tomorrow to put food on the table, what does that look like? Why is that so important, and what are you free to then do? You are free to grow, to look for opportunities instead of short-term fixes, to get in touch with the econo-system and to tap into the power of the network of minds.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

Whether it’s shares, property or business, in this chapter we’ll explore how wealth is created, and how being in touch with, and aware of, the seasons of money can make you rich.

The Freedom First Wealth Creation Formula

What is ‘wealth’?

It takes two minds to create wealth. One free to create, the other free to value.

Matthew Klan

Seems like a pretty important question to ask if you want to get rich! But, too often, we spend years of our life aiming for something without really understanding what it is.

Well, if you get right down to it, wealth is an emergent property of the network of minds.

What does that mean? Simply, that wealth doesn’t exist without humans. Wealth is something we create in ...

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