Before I start explaining how do low standard people stay low standard, let me clarify what low standard here means. Low standard means where there is no growth and people either face the same circumstances or they stay poor.

To start with, they have no rules in life and they are carried away by every wind that blows. They are unpredictable and can avoid having good habits. For them introducing a rule or starting with a new habit is always too much of a task. They listen to everyone who excites them and thus move in the direction so provided by the other person. Finally, life looks too clumsy, with the same problems arising again and again. This helps them stay confused.

Secondly, they don’t know what’s wrong with them. Even when they are made to realize, they take offence and reject the analysis so given. This way they are neither able to check what needs to be changed from within nor do they accept what others analyse about them. They have a reason outside of them that caused the trouble and they show themselves as too helpless to be able to combat it. In short, they aren’t taught to analyse themselves.

They confuse pleasure with happiness. For them, happiness is external and they need it from outside. If they don’t feel excited, they feel happiness is missing. They aren’t told that pleasure is temporary and can be missing all through and happiness is a natural state that comes with satisfaction and taming one’s thoughts.

They do the same stuff and expect different results. If they are upset for a reason, they won’t set an anchor to what caused that trouble. The moment they are out of the trouble, they would end up doing the same thing that caused it and would again be in the same trouble. If they get sick, their realization of the cause is little. They will end up in the same complication by doing the same stuff. If they lack money, they would keep doing the same job or will keep following the same path as they usually do and will expect a miracle to come through and change it all.

Finally, they hardly read the experiences of the people who have achieved success before them and are therefore devoid of the method to make things work in their favour.