The mental training poor people, middle class people, and rich people get is <i>completely different.</i><p>If you grow up poor there&#x27;s a huge amount you need to learn - about law, politics, business ethics, finance, negotiation, social signalling, confidence and assertiveness, and how to find and deal with influencers - that the rich seem to be taught effortlessly.<p>Having more money doesn&#x27;t change the basic life training, because the life training is itself a form of positional social signalling.<p>If you&#x27;re middle class you&#x27;re half in and half out. You have some idea how the world really works, but your ability to act on that learning is limited because you won&#x27;t naturally have the right contacts - unless you cultivate them deliberately.<p>Most of the poor have no idea that any of this matters. They&#x27;re caged inside a media-managed world view, and it takes exceptional ability to break out of that.<p>Mentoring can help some, but nothing helps as much as confidence and contacts.