Your Reflection
“I read The Millionaire Fastlane because I wanted to get on the road to wealth, but I struggled to understand it. It felt fundamentally different from other books by wealthy authors I’ve read before.
While I’ve read books like SAYNO’S Sayings and The 30-Year-Old Millionaire, this one felt much more difficult. One sentence in particular felt cruel: ‘Wealth is not created over a long period of time; it is acquired in a short duration.’ This stung because I didn’t have a business item to make money quickly, let alone the skills to even land a job at the time.
However, as I kept reading, I realized that having a brilliant entrepreneurial spirit or a great job was less important than how one utilizes time. The ‘leverage’ the wealthy talk about seems to be the difference between having income sources that work outside of your own labor hours and whether you are spending your time meaningfully.
The author illustrated this by comparing how the rich and the poor view time: (Imagine standing in line for 4 hours just to get free chicken. You might feel like you earned 20,000 won worth of food, but in reality, you didn’t gain money—you lost it.) This example felt like a punch to the gut. Honestly, I’m the type of person who would stand in line for something free. But the author put a price tag on time and weighed whether the item was worth that cost.
It turns out the years I spent pinching pennies to become rich weren’t the ‘Fastlane’ at all. I felt a strange sense of betrayal. There were so many things no one had ever told me about making money, and even now, much of the book feels like a riddle. Ultimately, the conclusion I reached is that there isn’t just one way to become rich. Regardless of how it happens, the most important thing is building my own theory of wealth.“





