Good Morning Team – First, I do believe in education, our oldest will start college next year, and I have many letters after my name. (which patients and clients care little about) and there are three challenges with traditional schools in America.<\/p>\n
1. They focus on what you do wrong, and being “right”, and not making mistakes. For the most part<\/em> creative thinking is discouraged and competition between peers is encouraged over cooperation. Think “bell curve”, competing for the best grades, Valedictorian, etc.<\/p>\n Entrepreneurs must make mistakes and the faster they do so, the faster they become successful. And entrepreneurs seek collaboration and thrive via cooperation.<\/p>\n 2. Schools are designed to create employees. This is why people say “Go to school to get a good job”. The fact is even most graduates of MBA programs go on to become employees…albeit better paid ones. <\/p>\n 3. The farther you go up the academic chain the more you know about less. The more specialized you become, the less leverage you have because you become a commodity that can be replaced when things change. Example the very best cassette player designers rapidly became unemployed once the CD was invented. Unless they themselves expanded their skill sets.<\/p>\n Entrepreneurs must wear a lot of different “hats”, they know a little about many aspects of their business…they are “generalists”. And they know enough to hire people that are experts – specialists – to do the things they themsleves are weak in so they can go on to create, make more mistakes, learn more by doing and ultimately fail until they’re FREE.<\/p>\n On the other side of failure is FREEDOM!<\/p>\n Live With Intention, Good Morning Team – First, I do believe in education, our oldest will start college next year, and I have many letters after my name. (which patients and clients care little about) and there are three challenges with traditional schools … Continue reading
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