In the new economy you now
find yourself in, you will be compensated not by how hard you work but by how
much value you add to the world around you. Think about it. If you are
currently being paid twenty dollars an hour, this money is being given to you not
simply because you showed up at your desk for those sixty minutes but because
you have added twenty dollars’ worth of perceived value during those sixty
minutes. So, the monetary reward you receive is determined not by how long you
work but by how much value you add.
This is why a brain surgeon
is paid so much more than a McDonald’s employee. Is the brain surgeon a better
person? Not necessarily. Is the brain surgeon smarter? Who knows? But one thing
is certain: the brain surgeon has accumulated far more specialized knowledge
and specific know – how than the McDonald’s employee.
There are far fewer people
who can do what the brain surgeon does and, as a result, the brain surgeon is
perceived as far more valuable to the marketplace. This is why the brain
surgeon is paid over ten times more than the person who flips burgers. Money
simply becomes a symbol for how much value each person has added to the world
at large.
So to be paid more money in
your work, you must add more value to the world. And the best way to begin
adding value to the world is to start becoming a more valuable person. Acquire
skills no one else has. Read books no one else is
reading. Think thoughts no one else is thinking. Or, to put it another way, you
cannot have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more
from life, you need to be more in life.
Source:
From one of the best-sellers, authored by Robin Sharma
