Making Millions

I just watched a video about young self-made millionaires in Singapore, and one of the buzzwords I heard them saying the most frequently is “mindset”. Having the mindset of success, and monetizing your skills and passions. I interpreted this as manifesting one’s own success, which led me to a question that I don’t think I can answer. How much of their “mindset” was further reinforced by success, making this a loop of self-fulfilling prophecies? This is not to detract them from their success, but I wonder if their self-belief would be as steadfast, if for some reason or other, what they were doing did not work out? That video would have been more insightful if they had interviewed other youngsters who did similar things, but did not succeed. Does an individual’s personality make it easier/harder to achieve what they did?

From another perspective, does not chasing (and by extension not achieving) financial gains, make one less of a success? OR does success naturally follow a job/skill done well? What the hell is success?

I’ve got a lot of questions, that I will drown with pints of Guinness. Right. So THAT’S why I’m not one of those guys haha.