Hello friends,
Okay, let’s return to school days. Right now, you’re in an English lesson. Okay, read this sentence, are you as bored as I am? Now read it backwards.
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Geez, how does it feel to return to school? I bet some of us would really like to go back to the future. Just imagine how much one could change. Whatever you do, please ensure your future mother or father does not fall in love with you… Eeeweee, hey I am just being realistic here, you saw what happened to Michael J Fox.
Anyways, if right now your kids hate school, maybe they should read this article. I mean you know what most kids are saying even before they reach high school, “I don’t like school, I just want to make money, I think it’s quicker to get a nice car, house, etc.” I mean let’s admit it, that’s what we thought adult life entails, especially if in our world we mostly like toys, toy cars, playing monopoly, playing shop shop, going to the fun fair and buying our favourite treats. What are we after when we’re kids? We want to have fun and to have the most fun, we see how money and decisions rule our world, and so money is something we desire so we can buy freedom to decide, buy what we want to buy without a “NO” all the time, but as kids, we also see what others miss i.e., the people who struggle. This is actually why kids see the money first rather than the school life sitting in front of them.
They don’t know what they don’t know, they don’t have what they want to have, they can’t do what they want to do, their schedule is often a forced schedule, with school restricting them most of the time and it’s all these other factors that blur out the real meaning of being in school. Adult life seems much more fun, free, interesting, and appealing (because we can earn money). This is why kids want to have all these things so quickly rather than appreciate how lucky they are to have the time to build their business language and skills, not to mention enjoy being their age. In fact, kids miss how much opportunity is really sitting in front of them, the chance to start up their own thing, the side-line business has far more opportunities, including opportunities to fail without becoming homeless or having no food. Now that’s a really good opportunity to have, especially if you have your mindset on becoming a billionaire according to billionaire restauranteur Tilman Fertitta. It’s all about where one’s decisions lie.
See, earning money requires learning to make decisions, learning to talk to your peers, learning to talk to every person out there, the young and what is really dreadful as a young person is selling an idea, perspective, point of view and winning against an adult especially if they buy into it. Being a kid is risky, I mean that is why the older worry about them all the time because they’re more vulnerable and the risks are high in them getting caught up in something that they don’t know any better about. Tilman Fertitta who built his first hotel at the age of 26 was already learning entrepreneurial skills from the age of 12 or 13, his advice, and mine is, “go to school”. Why? To run a business a person would need to have at least the basic knowledge even if one hires a person to do what they’re not qualified to do or good at doing, it’s up to the business owner (the lion), to know what (is going on in the jungle – sorry I forgot we’re talking about a business owner ;)) to do when everyone comes to him/her with the numbers, with the knowledge, with the problem, with bad and good news. Ultimately, it’s the responsibility of the business owner to ensure they’re ahead of their competitors also they are responsible for many people’s salaries (yes lives). There is certainly no such thing as a stupid question but believe it or not, most of us end up in the wrong companies because we weren’t/aren’t asking better questions to ourselves and others, maybe because we remained mediocre.
Tilsman Fertitta states that many people aren’t choosing smartly where they want to work, and one should really work for a company where they can make someone better, almost always as long as the person is willing to learn, and willing to learn gets its kickstart from going to school and learning to learn. Choosing to work for a company really is asking, how long will they stick around for, do they have a product that is futuristic, lasting, will the company be bought out and will people be laid off? When one pursues the road of education which quite frankly is going to be part of a person’s entire life it becomes evident, “you know what you know, and you know what you don’t know”.
You know, when I was in school, I didn’t want to fail, I didn’t want to lose a year, but the reality is that by playing the wrong game, one might have to lose a couple of years, especially if one is in the wrong business (game), doing what is inauthentic, this eventually catches up but similarly, these sorts of failures simply make you wiser. It’s the wool that kids still have over their eyes that is the fluff dominating their school years, but the minute it’s taken off, they see it for what it is, and the minute they begin to build the inner foundations of resiliency this is when they will learn and make the most of what school life offers so that they can get ahead in their “true game”.
Yours sincerely,
T. Dench Patel
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