In developed countries we all receive basic education that teaches us to read, write and do mathematics. Then we are thrown out into the world, either to sit in a salaried job, join the ever growing ranks of unemployed, or to start business that are like to fail. We are basically cut loose without any skills in securing a job, and with no idea of how to be in business for ourselves.
If this says anything, it says our formal education system has let us down. It doesn’t give us important life skills. School for me meant following the traditional rules, only giving people what they expected, and getting ahead by doing the same thing as everyone else. I would not call that steps for knowledge. At no stage are we taught how to get a job, or how to earn, keep and use money correctly. Rarely are these things talked about at our schools and universities. Even some of the most highly regarded business courses go round the issue. They teach students ‘soft’ skills, hoping that when they get out into the real world they will be able to figure it out for themselves.
The truth about Education and Success
Studies of individuals who have above-average wealth show no real correlation between levels of formal education and the ability to make money. Formal education may affect how much you make in a salaried job, but it doesn’t affect your chance of real financial independence.
If you look a little closer, however, there is a very strong correlation between one type of education and wealth. Those who have acquired wealth are all well educated in the art of making money. This’ Education’ wasn’t acquired at a conventional school or university. These people gained it at school of wealth.
Attend only the school of wealth
John was an average student in at school, who did a certificate in training and got a job as a trainer in major firm. After about five years he was on about 20.000 a year and was doing well. After about eight years he was on 100.000 a year, was paying off a house. Then he started his own training business and retired in three years – at age 35.
John was pretty average in all the usual measures of school success. No-one would have picked him as someone who would retire at 35. But he had something that made the difference. He knew, and did, many of the right things for developing wealth.
Wealth education is difficult to get. The problem is that no formal school of wealth exists. Wealth education is usually acquired by trial and error, by risk-taking, by losses and wins. This can be very time-consuming and very costly. Both financially and emotionally. Every owner of a failed business can vouch for that. The only way to avoid these costly mistakes is to find a successful person who will pass this education on to you.
However, having it passed on to you is very rare. The people who have this knowledge are too few, and too bus, to be able to stop and help others learn. The people who desperately need wealth education cannot afford to pay the tight teachers what they are worth. And unfortunately, these skills can’ t be picked up overnight. They usually required intimate knowledge and take years to lean.
To make it worse, in our world of instant gratification, most people don’t see an investment in their education as something worthwhile, especially when the pay-off could take more than ten years. It all becomes too hard. It is much easier to sell your time in short bursts of a week or so, and collect pay cheque.
If you want to be great study success and nothing else
John started his working life by falling into the trap of only seeing the short term. But he soon learn that investing in his education was priceless. He made it business to learn from people who were already doing well. This behavior is called modeling. You identify people who do things well, work out how they do it, and then copy them. It sounds simple, but it takes time. John picked out people whose lives and business he admired, worked out the strategies they used, and applied them to his life. You have seen the results—from salary slave to financial independence in three years.
The easiest thing you can do is to read a successful person’s autobiography. But if you are more resourceful, you will get to meet and learn from these people directly. It’s a secrete that is been around since civilization began.
This is your only short cut to success. Model the success of people you admire and learn from their mistakes these people are the ones who have done it all, and can give you invaluable advice on how to earn, keep and use money. It is price worth paying, no matter how outlandish the cost may seem at the time.
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