I second Page.
Page says...
not true. the current education system is designed to produce employees, not business owners, etrepreneurs, and investors. That's why schools give students meaningless assignments and endless deadlines. it's to shape them into employees.
School taught me nothing about leadership, organization, and most importatly, creative innovation. I had to do that myself by learning from people in whose footsteps I wish to fillow. Granted,school did teach me ways to convey leadership-oriented ideas (such as writing and public speaking) but it left me to assemble the pieces on my own.
The ability to successfully start and manage a business is not something you can learn in school, and its not something just anyone can do w/o changing how they think. some people are naturally suited for it and enjoy taking risk to get ahead. These people are natural leaders and innovators, and the world belongs to them. Other people are standard products of the system and have been conditioned to look for safety and stability in the realm of finances, so when they sense risk, they run like hell. These people are natural-born employees and will spend their lives working for the natural-born leaders and innovators. These employee-types cannot ever be successful in owning business and investing unless they change the way they think.
To Engetsu,
Engetsu says...
Going to school opens up your mind and critical thinking abilities.
I wish this was true, unfortunately, its' not. Perhaps you should refer to these books... unlike some of the posters, I do not believe school itself will nor can help. I believe in educating yourself. I believe that's the only way to learn. Just as I have learned to become Don Juan, I have also learned to teach myself and as another poster put, learned to learn but by myself.
Why Education Is Useless by Daniel Cottom
Clueless in Academe : How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind by Gerald Graff
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies by Alfie Kohn
The Schools Our Children Deserve : Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" by Alfie Kohn
Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn
How Children Learn by John Caldwell Holt
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People do Things Better by John Holt
The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School by Valerie Fitzenreiter
I have
many many more book selections, I have read all of them.
Would you like more to read?
Many people who aren't wealthy or rich also do not like to learn, something to think about. These are the very same people who spend time playing video games or watching Sunday night football or other forms of entertainment. There's nothing wrong with entertainment but most have gone too far.
Whenever they have to think about money, they put their mind to sleep. Whenever they are told to read, they prefer reading newspapers instead of a new technique on how to find new ways to detect a good stock from bad, instead of learning, they have
died.
And the day Sife stops learning, Sife dies.
Engetsu says...
Starting a business without any higher education is an amazing way to fail.
It's ashamed that school is now a synonym with education itself. Quite ashamed.
Engetsu says...
I'm deceived... I would have expected much more common sense out of a heavily-worshipped poster such as Pook.
You have not been deceived by anyone but yourself. Think of where you stand. Perhaps Pook's very advice will be the same advice that will get you out of your money problems in the future.
belividere says...
Last I checked you aren't forever. ***** comes, ***** goes yes at the same time you also reach your expiration date. Your money isn't going with you. Rather than spend all your time chasing money and materialistic outputs focus on things that make a difference.
Perhaps you misunderstood Pook. Immortality isn't gained through living forever in life itself but in memories and thoughts. When your name goes down on many things, that's essentially living forever. All men die but not many live.
Pook says...
When you BELIEVE you are that prince, that you are The Great Catch, all the 'desperation' signs you were emitting vanish and an aura of attraction will surround you. Combine this manner of thinking with all the Don Juan skills you know, and you will become irresistable.
Remember, you are the Prince, the catch! The GREAT catch! Do not chase women, they chase you! When he says invest in yourself, he does not mean extreme materialism and chasing just money for the rest of your life. He meant do what makes you feel good, what makes you feel who you are. If you love helping the charity, perhaps the money you make can be donated to the charity every month. That's one form of investing in yourself. When others are happy, so are you. Investing in yourself so that you become one, investing your time chasing women is a waste of time unless of course, there are other exceptions but that's not of this topic.
belividere says...
You made a couple of dollars working within the system? Great, how does that actually change anything? You are putting materialistic happiness as a priority, the SUV, the happy family, the care free life. .etc.
I think the question is, "what difference will I make as a worker as opposed to if I was a businessman?"
In fact, question for you belividere, where did Pook say anything about materialism in ways that you describe?
belividere says...
You are fooling yourself and no one else. You are all drones to the economic machine pretending to be independant. You're success depends on the market and interest rates.
We are all employees at one level or another, even Bill Gates. Just at which part of the hierarchy do you wish to be at?
Success do not depend on the market nor rates. Success starts within the mind.
The market, down or up, I've seen many people benefit in both and many who know how to survive in both.
