A term originally used to talk of the economic equality, I've realised that this phrase can also be applied to many different parts of our lives, since I was a young kid.

I always noticed, how it was the rich popular kids that got- what seemed like- everything. One thing was for certain, they were certainly getting more than I and many other students were by doing practically nothing.

You are "rich" in some aspect, you might be rich in your looks, income, style, behaviour and many others I'm sure you can think of. The more rich you are in one of your qualities, the richer your other qualities become automatically.

For example, the Halo effect, if you're good looking, then the respect you get will be "rich", therefore you get more happiness, therefore you'll be more committed to work and have fun, more work = more money and finally, more money = more good looks since you'll be able to now buy stylish clothes, buy better quality food and have a better hygiene. It's a cycle on repeat, the rich gets richer.

However, the same applies to "poor". If you're "poor" in a quality, if not improved, it can bring your other qualities "poorer". For example, if don't clean yourself, look like shit and smell like shit, then the respect you get will be "poor", your happiness will be "poor", you'll be less committed to work and life, you'll isolate yourself, you'll get fat and more ugly, you'll get even more unhappier. The poor gets poorer- until they commit suicide or die.

How can someone go from "poor" to "rich"? Let's take me for example, I didn't have any friends, no social life, no money, no happiness. But then, I decided to read some books, books on social interactions. I made some new friends who hadn't know about my miserable sad life, those friends brought me some happiness, they gave me respect. I was now more hopeful, my happiness radiated and the respect I got increased. I now become more committed to life, I got a job and now here I am.

Therefore, it should be in our best interest to make sure every part of us is "rich", it's why it's better to be all-rounded. It's not good to "place all your eggs in one basket" cause if you do, then if something ends up happening to that quality of yours, all your other qualities "richness" that relied on that quality will collapse.

It's also why we tell beginners to not do something solely to get girls, don't learn to play the guitar , don't lift just, don't make money just so you can get girls. Cause what's going to happen? You're either going to get a girl and then stop working on your quality and then collapse, or you're not going to get any girls and because you wanted to work on something because of girls and now you're not getting girls, you'll stop.

Edit: Speaking of girls, it's also why you shouldn't remain committed to 1 girl. Because as the value of thing depreciates, the richness of your relationship with that girl will decrease and because you don't have other girls to have pre-selection and jealously to increase your richness with "your" girl, she'll dump you.