In the new economy you now find yourself in, you will be compensated not by how hard you work but by how much value you add to the world around you.

The brain surgeon has accumulated far more specialized knowledge and specific know-how than the McDonald’s employee.

Money simply becomes a symbol for how much value each person has added to the world at large.

So to be paid more money in your work, you must add more value to the world.

And the best way to begin adding value to the world is to start becoming a more valuable person. Acquire skills that no one else has. Read books no one else is reading.

Think thoughts no one else is thinking. Or, to put it another way, you cannot have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.