The Science of Getting Rich -

Get Rid of the Thought

of Competition

Mr. Wattles emphatically states in "The Science of Getting Rich" that in order to do things "in a certain way" you must get rid of the thought of competition.  In the fifth chapter of his book he explains that the way to get what you want is to create it, not to take it away from someone else. 

In order to get what you want, you do not have to cheat or take advantage, because you’re not competing for a piece of finite resources.  Instead, you’re creating what you want from the limitless supply that exists in the invisible formless substance.  He urges the reader to be a creator, not a competitor.  

He goes on to say that the one living substance is permeated with the desire to live more, and it wants to continually create new things in order to meet its need to increase, grow, and expand.  This substance expresses itself through you, and, therefore, it wants you to have everything you desire.  This idea is well summed-up in the following quote from “The Science of Getting Rich”:

“It is the desire of God that you should get rich.  He wants you to get rich because he can express himself better through you if you have plenty of things to use in giving him expression.  He can live more in you if you have unlimited command of the means of life.”

A scarcity mentality states that since the supply is limited, in order for you to have more, someone else must necessarily have less.  An abundance mentality states that there is more than enough for everyone, so that when you get what you want everyone else that is affected will also have more.  You can have anything that anyone else has, and you can have it by creating it for yourself. 

Mr. Wattles acknowledges that there are people who acquire much wealth purely by their extraordinary ability at competition.  But he adds that “riches secured on a competitive plane are never satisfactory or permanent.”  To think that you must compete for what you want comes from a mentality based on lack, limitation, and struggle.   

Furthermore, those who get what they want through competition knock down the ladder by which they climbed to the top, while those who get what they desire through creation open the way for others to follow.

Those doing things in “a certain way” know that the pie is limitless.  Therefore, instead of grabbing for a bigger piece of the pie, you should be looking for ways to make the pie bigger so that there is more for everyone.

In order to get rich by doing things “in a certain way” you must rise out of competitive thought.  When you begin to think that you must fight for what you want, and that you must hurry before someone else gets to it first, you momentarily lose your power to create.  Rest assured that since you’re creating what you want from the formless substance, and this substance is limitless, if you do things in “a certain way” you will not go without.  

“The Science of Getting Rich” teaches that you can have everything that you want to have, and that you have unlimited command of the means of life. 

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