To my mind, ingratitude is one of the worst -- and most irritating -- qualities someone can have.
We're surrounded by miracles, and most people, frankly, are ingrates.
People who don't appreciate their benefactors, or what's been given to them, or who take modern miracles for granted, are ingrates.
Louis CK has a great routine about ingratitude. He talks about people who complain about how long it takes for their cell phones to start up, or who gripe about the speed of airplane WiFi.
Stop for a minute, he says, and realize the miracle going on:
You're sitting in a chair, IN THE SKY.
What could you possibly be complaining about?
And yet their response is: meh.
This makes me crazy.
The same goes for how people can make a living these days. We're surrounded by miraculous possibilities, and people either turn up their noses at them, or go about their lives as if these amazing things don't exist.
There are people who make their entire livings via their laptops, running a simple eCommerce store. They have tools available to them that the most high-powered marketers a generation ago couldn't have dreamed of. They can start businesses with almost no overhead and essentially no risk, especially when compared with traditional businesses and brick-and-mortar stores.
Almost no one stops to say: this is truly amazing.
They just keep digging ditches.
It's an incredible time to be alive. But almost no one realizes it, or appreciates it.
You do, which is why you're on this list.
And rather than observe this incredible phenomenon from the sidelines, eCommerce expert Aidan Booth urges you to join in.
I devoted a whole episode of the Tom Woods Show to people whose lives were changed for the better because of Aidan. You should come see what it's all about.
And just for attending (from your computer), I have some serious goodies for you -- including my Tom Woods Email Domination Program, which sells for $97. I'm giving it to you for $0 just for coming.
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