In his book 'Becoming your Own Banker,' Nelson Nash speaks to the limitations of personal implementation of The Infinite Banking Concept. One of those limitations comes prior to employing IBC. This limitation and commonly known phenomenon is called "the arrival syndrome." The "arrival syndrome" as Nash describes "probably limits the achievements of mankind more than anything else. When this 'thing' infects us, we stop growing, stop learning. We ROT! We turn off or tune out the ability to receive inspiration - because we already know all there is to know."
As an IBC coach and teacher one of the sad realities of what I do is to meet all kinds of people that are a) pretty much set with "their thing" and unwilling to learn something new, b) really do know everything and nothing you say could possibly shed any new knowledge upon their already huge knowledge base or c) just cannot undo all the "rules of finance" they always known. The safety of knowing what you know prohibits the possibility of doing anything new or fresh no matter how beneficial the new "thing" really is.
A wise man by the name of Gabe Kotter once said, "Change is good! Without change, there would be a lot of wet babies in the world."
The inability to learn something new because one has arrived at "all knowledge" or something new might upset the apple cart is part of the coin that leads to arrival syndrome.
Now I know that some people have a 'pot load of money' and to even think of putting a portion of that money in a financial vehicle like an IBC plan (using dividend-paying whole life insurance) seems counter intuitive to some when what's been working seems so much better. I mean, don't fix what ain't broke - right? But what we are doing with our money is a broken practice in so many ways and to not even be open to hear about another way to use our money is - well - part of the danger of the arrival syndrome.
Over coming being a "know it all" is a huge hurdle to unlocking the truth of IBC. You should try it - even if you've arrived.
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