Finding treasure and becoming rich is a poor mans dream, I know, it’s one of mine. It seems that most of the great treasures found involved the outlaying of an extraordinary amount of money, like Mel Fisher and others with the shipwrecks. Very few that I know of involved average people stumbling onto unknown treasure, and it seems that those stories didn’t end well for the most part. You could cite the couple in California and their gold coins, but here again, they owned a home and a good bit of land in California which is already way more than I could ever hope to attain, and it still remains to be seen how they make out, so far it isn’t really going well in my point of view.
Gidday Bruce
Finding treasure and becoming rich is a poor mans dream.
Not necessarily Malcolm Campbell famous 1930's race car driver search Cocos island for treasure was rich already it was just a challenge. Lord Fitzwilliam search Cocos island using a cruise ship. He was so rich that the treasure most likely was nothing compared to what he was worth?
Bernard Keiser was wealthy inventor and owner of company that developed material used to produce space suits.He had wealth already. For some quite successful in their lives they need a challenge. There are others....but definitely not just a poor mans dream exclusively.
Very few that I know of involved average people stumbling onto unknown treasure, and it seems that those stories didn’t end well for the most part.
You have to break the current shackles of American eccentric way of thinking amigo. In many cases that is true but also in many cases people have done quite well. Take some of metal detectorists that have found caches in UK. Some of them have done very well for themselves. The world is your oyster amigo. You need to step out into the big wide world out of you comfort zone.
I find it very unsettling the defeatist attitude that pervades America these days. Its like the soul of America has given up the ghost. Once upon a time many countries looked up to America because of get up and go spirit. The one biggest lesson the trio has always respected and admired was that spirit. When you get knocked down you get back up again every time. That drive belief and desire to learn from mistakes.
That is what made America great amigo.
Of Very few that I know of involved average people stumbling onto unknown treasure, and it seems that those stories didn’t end well for the most part. .
My family was very average and was poor ass out of my pants living in 2 rooms up 2 rooms down hovel in Ireland before emigrated to Australia with only possession fitting in suit case. Nothing buddy absolutely nothing we had. We did the hard yards with all the crap jobs no one else wanted we went with out the toys. We had aspirations that we was going to get rich. From a young kid digging in gravels trying to dig for gemstones but in reality as poor as church mice. Living with hand me down clothes apple boxes stacked as a closet. Never having a bedroom to myself.
Then final working from 14 what ever crap job I could do. And through many jobs many snubbed, I was there doing it. The University of hard knocks is great teacher amigo.
Finally I fell into drilling work for mining industry with all changes of jobs to another through endless mining camps. With the specter of poverty hissing behind my back. I like many had like many employee mind set I worked as the whipping donkey took the whipping regardless of if i liked it or not. Until I became expendable amigos like so many of us do. Tossed to scrapheap of life looking for a hole to die in.
But you know what I and the Trio had many more failures than successes. Some in truth some have been pretty brutal. But it was that inspiration of the American spirit that lifted us amigo.
We decided to rebel from being the whipping donkeys who had enough of the whip. And sized the whip and decided success or failure we rather perish trying to be the master of our own destinies. Better to die on ones feet than cowering like a dog.
It was not easy as at first we had many failures in the attempt sink or swim. Finally we are just Mr average Joe blows. Hell you pass any of us in the street and ya never know. You will not see us with bling. None of us well ever publicly state how much we are worth, but never need to work again. You will find us very down to earth and approachable people.
I still have relatives back in Ireland still whining and moaning that there is no opportunities in life? But never made any effort do anything about that other than think of reasons why not to?
If you want to succeed you have change that mindset.
You have to be a "treasure hunter" in all facets of your life and push yourself way beyond your expected limitations.
Crow
