"In the real world, what school you attended becomes less and less important and your character, drive, passion, and intelligence prevail." Robert Kiyosaki
INVESTMENT OF 20 YEARS IN ACADEMIC EDUCATION IS A RISKY BUSINESS
Many people live today by conventional wisdom as a result they can't drop out the college. You are absolutely right in suggesting students to look for alternative ways of earning money. Most of the students have unique childhood talents and skills, if they develop them they don't need to attend any college. Students spend 20 or more years in pursuing their academic college but they don't get the value for that much time they invest in their education. If they invest the same amount in developing their childhood talents, gifts and passion, they can start off a new life and thus their stories can be new and inspiring for others. 20 years of academic education doesn't guarantee a prosperous or financially abundant future. It is one of the time killers.
There are only very few people in the world who really know and understand the current trend that is prevailing the world. Parents send their children to school, colleges and universities so that their children can get good jobs as a result the children can settle down in life with safe and secured jobs. However this kind of attitude is very risky today. We can't really assume that our college degrees will guarantee us financial security in life. This is only an illusion because there is no security or freedom in life.
When the students graduate and have job placements in multi-national companies, their first reaction is always to exhilarated and happy. But soon that exhilaration doesn't last for a long time before they are fired up. There is no proper guidance provided for students. The students listen to the well-meaning opinions of their parents and they get swept away by whims and fancies but there is a great risk which they don't perceive at all.
20 years of academic education and not able to become millionaires or billionaires during one's life time is indeed a very pathetic case. Forget about being millionaires or billionaires, they have no enough money to be financially free. It is a waste of time to invest 20 years or more of our prime time, energy and money in academic education when it doesn't give us true satisfaction, happiness and financial abundance for our retirement. It is useless for those who won't be able to enjoy their lives with their family happily.
OPINIONS MISLEAD AND MISGUIDE US
Students must decide whether to pursue academic education or non-academic education. They must think forward and weigh whether academic education is beneficial or non-academic education is better. Of course, academic education produces doctors, engineers, scientists, professors, lawyers, teachers etc. but those who pursue academic education choose one of the aforementioned jobs by their childhood desires or ambition and there is nothing wrong as long as they have pursued their original desire or goals. We can't expect them to change their ambition or desires. But others who don't become doctors or lawyers or engineers, they must pursue they aspire to be in their childhood. They should not listen to others' opinions because opinions are free and they don't guarantee us any future.
People listen to their parents' opinions, friends' opinions, neighbours' opinions and the opinions of government leaders. Students must think for themselves and they should have their own minds and say. They don't need to go by others opinions however if others' opinions make some sense then they should follow them but not at the expense of sacrificing their future or leaving their future in others' hands, companies or government.
USE YOUR FREE TIME TO ACQUIRE NON-ACADEMIC EDUCATION
Robert Kiyosaki in recent blogs wrote,"You will not learn how to prosper financially in college. You will not learn how money works. You will not learn how to invest. You will not learn even the simple definition of an asset, something that puts money in your pocket, and a liability, something that takes money out of your pocket. You must take charge of your own financial education. Only then will you have a complete education."
Instead of pursuing academic education, invest your time, money and energy in gaining non-academic education because non-academic education will provide you financial freedom, prosperity, abundance, richness, values, happiness, health and a great family relationship because you will follow your plans and will accomplish your goals and not others.
What do I mean by non-academic education? Non-academic education includes financial education propagated by Robert Kiyosaki and that is a life changer today. Non-academic education means where you become your own teacher to learn and turn that learning into income generating business so that your ingenuity can guarantee you a better, free and secured future.
Academic education is very expensive and very risky for those who want to be employees for lifelong. The large companies, industries, which used to give pension at retirement is not in a position to provide because they are following the new industrial trend that is the information trend. Here the conventional idea of job security is disappearing gradually and in the future it will be a history. Education fees have sky rocketed today and though there is a great recession all over the world, the education industries are relishing huge margins of profits and revenues. But whose pockets are being emptied and broke?
BE YOUR OWN BOSS FOR CREATING A PROSPEROUS LIFE
Be your own teacher, coach, guide, mentor and visionary because it is your life and I am sure you don't intend to count on others for good things of life. Initially, it will be hard and scary to walk this road because there won't be any much promise during learning process but later you will reap the bumper crops and it will be very sweet. You are the one who will enjoy the fruits.
Learn about investment opportunities, increase your financial intelligence, look for business opportunities, pursue your own dreams and goals just like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Jerry Young, Larry Ellison and many others who listened to their guts, their opinions and ignored others well-meaning opinions and pursued their dreams or goals till they realized. You can model them and you will too reap the similar rewards. So do more often non-academic activities more than academic activities. Work on your paintings, write that book, take the first photographs, design that dress, improve that invention and so on.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
