Attaining Wealth

Gratitude, according to John Templeton, is the single most important factor in attaining wealth. That’s what he said in a video recorded interview I watched when I first started learning about trading.

Templeton is well qualified to give advice on how to attain wealth. He became a billionaire by pioneering the use of globally diversified mutual funds. He established Templeton Growth, Ltd. in the 1950’s, ran it for five decades and then turned it over to the Franklin Group

Additionally, the John Templeton Foundation gives grants for research on gratitude. http://www.templeton.org/funding_areas/core_themes/gratitude/1137.html

Highlights on some of that research appear in an article by Robert A. Emmons and Michael E. McCullough.
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/labs/emmons/

If wealth is the objective of trading, and gratitude leads to wealth, then what leads to gratitude?

Continued tomorrow ...

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