I think I may have believed, unconsciously, then, that I was kind of a business hero. I had this company that I had spent 15 years building.

我觉得我会不自觉的把自己看作是一个商业英雄，我花了15年的时间创建了一家名为“未来”的企业，那是一个杂志出版机构，后来还公开上市了。

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This is because people think to themselves, whether consciously or unconsciously, surely all right-thinking (read 'normal') people think the same way as me?

这是因为，人们有意或无意地对自己说，所有思维正常的人当然都和我想的一样。

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If you think you'll fail you are likely to hold you self back or even trip yourself up (sometimes unconsciously).

还有那种对自我实现的预信感。如果你觉得自己会失败，就很可能裹足不前甚至作茧自缚了(有时是无意识的)。

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As human beings, we unconsciously assume that others think and see the world the same way we do.

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Therefore, to move along the scale to consciously or unconsciously competent, you need to work on HOW you think about money, which is a completely different skill than having specific knowledge about investments or other personal finance topics.

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