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Everything in life is a journey, choosing your means of transportation is totally up to you just as bearing the risk is. You can either walk, run, drive or fly, whichever way you're still going to get to the finish line unless you stop.

People wonder why it's so difficult to get rich, well that's because the same journey you're embarking on has others on it too, so it's either you outrun or outsmart them or you'll never get to win, it's as simple as that. 

So the primary way of getting rich is either slowly or fast! 

I know many of you were prolly expecting me to say something that sounds motivational perhaps? But the truth is, that's just how it is, your mode of travelling and how you navigate the routes determines your success. 

People say Rome wasn't built in a day quite often but many tend to think that this proverb has anything to do with "time". Well, I'm here to tell you that it really has nothing to do with time if we're to actually decrypt the meaning of it. Rome wasn't built in a day, talks more of effort, dedication and work done, so depending on what one is working on, applying enough of these can get one all set up within a day. 

So I guess what I'm trying to say here is not that you can get rich in a day, but that with the right energy channeled through your hustle, you can get there much quicker so you either choose to build slowly, this is typically what some people call "building wealth" or you could work out the math and get things on fast pace, it all boils down to one's ability to work, dedicated, outsmart and exploit. 

Uhhh, that's a weird word at the end, innit? 

### Exploitation is a powerful tool to attain wealth and riches

What's the meaning of exploitation? The simplest way to define it is the process of taking advantage of something or taking leverage of a vulnerability. 

The world is full of vulnerabilities, so when I say "exploit" I'm not talking about wrongfully creating wealth, although it applies but it's wrong and there are other ways to walk around it. 

Here's basically what I'm talking about:

My sister used to say everything is fair in business, I didn't understand at first but overtime, I got to fully grasp what that means. 

A business environment allows one to build, create or place value on something designed by another. Typically whoever is able to capture more audiences with his brand climbs up faster. An example of exploits that has created riches is Uber. 

We all know Uber, right? The creator of Uber saw the vulnerabilities in transportation and decided to exploit it, many wouldn't normally think it would work but you see, people will not care who owns a property, if it serves them, they really need not know any more. The business took off and now we have Bolt and other people copying the idea. Without owning vehicles, Uber has gained a huge advantage in the transportation business, exploiting the vulnerabilities in the system, effectively building wealth. 

Airbnb did the same with the rental business, connecting people in search of shelter to people with shelter, simply being a channel of distributing value and taking a cut in the process. These things point us to the fact that you either find a way to exploit a vulnerability in the world or you're never clocking the wealth status. 

Some build wealth by investing, a big example is Warren Buffet, a man we could use as an example of slow wealth builders. Was there anything he exploited? I would say yes, "patience". Do you know that when one loses a trade, value isn't destroyed, just simply transferred? That would mean that someone is winning. So people like Warren exploit human's impatience and build slow wealth by timely involvement in the markets. 

Wealth is built by so much including exploitation, it can either be done slowly or at a much faster pace, what really matters is the ability to keep moving and navigate the routes, the end is rather promised though many tend to say it is not but doubt as we know is the first hindrance of success. 

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