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Оглавление“A formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
The second lesson that I learned from Jim was something he always said: “A formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” That is such an amazing, amazing teaching, and I still talk about that in most of my seminars.
Let’s think about that for a moment. Often in my seminars, I will ask the question, “Why is it that some people succeed and other people don’t succeed?” We live in a country where we’re free to do what we like to do. We can choose our profession. We can choose how much money we want. We can choose whom we marry. We can choose where we live. Everybody has the same ability to be free and make choices, yet some of them succeed and others don’t. Why is that?
In a country, how many kids go to high school? I don't know the exact number, but let’s call it 90 percent. Ninety percent of kids graduate from high school; tens and tens and tens of millions, probably hundreds of millions of people in my country, the United States of America, have gone to high school. Yet, some of them are successful; some of them are not. In fact, some of them are successful; most of them are not. We know that a formal education through high school is not what determines whether or not you’re successful. Now, are you thinking to yourself, “Chris, are you saying that we shouldn’t go to high school?”
