When it comes to wealth different people has different views concerning it some consider wealth as sometimes that has it own time so when it gets to your time you will become wealthy but the fact is that wealth is one thing that is created over a given period of time and since it's created their are steps that you need before wealth can be created and one of such steps is to change your mindset and believe system that one has concerning wealth because the fact is that true sustainable wealth is created via investment that returns profits on investment and has a great potential of growth over a given period of time
If you could focus on just growing wealth, you are going to get it. But mindset isn't everything, we are talking about a situation where people are in a big financial trouble and when you are in a big financial trouble you are not going to get the best investment mindset that way.
If you have huge debts, big responsibilities, health, sickness, job firing, etc etc, basically anything that ruins your finance, you are not going to have investment mindset and do great, its not going to be that easy, so you should be considering how this is something that will take a while for you to end up getting. Of course if you can do a lot better and we could always do a lot better if we could have some financial leeway and freedom.
Preparing for the worst case scenario from the start is important, because it can protect our finances when something unwanted happens or at least the situation will not be worse than not preparing. We never know what will happen to us in the future, so one thing we can do is prepare for it. It seems like having an emergency fund is also something we always recommend when we are investing. Because when something bad happens, we don't need to disturb our investment.