My Diploma Doesn't Seem to Work: Principles they forgot to teach in High School

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Moisés Castillo. My Diploma Doesn't Seem to Work: Principles they forgot to teach in High School

Prologue

Part One: Mindset Mastery. 1. Lemon Seeds Don’t Grow Apples

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Positive Mindset

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2. It Doesn’t Just Fall in Your Lap

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Opportunity

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3. Does Life Suck or Do You?

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Law of Attraction

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Part Two: (inter)Personal Communication. 4. Can You Mumble a Little Louder?

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Face-to-Face Communication

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5. Sell Me on YOU

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: The Art of Influence

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6. No, Death Isn’t Preferable

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Public Speaking

Part Three: Financial Literacy. 7. Stop Eating Your Future

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Consumers vs Producers

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8. Who Wants to Be a Paycheck-to-Paycheck Millionaire?

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Income vs. Wealth

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9. Paying Your Uncle Sam

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Taxes

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Part Four: Principles of Character. 10. So, Where’s This Wolf?

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Credibility

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11. Running into Layoffs

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Resilience

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12. Feet Go on the Floor, Not in Your Mouth

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Humility

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Part Five: Business Basics. 13. Go Fast or Go Far?

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Team-building

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14. The Bold Man Gets the Pig

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Risk Taking

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15. What Good Is Potential?

What H.S. Forgot to Teach: Goal-setting

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Epilogue

Acknowledgements

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My Diploma Doesn’t Seem to Work

Principles they forgot to teach in High School

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It is safe to say that by the time you entered high school, you already established a foundational base of cognitive and deductive reasoning. (You were pretty well aware that when your mother told you not to touch the stove because it was hot, she was right. But if she tried telling you that about the TV remote, you’d look at her like “How old do you think I am?”) If high school curriculums took leadership and finance as seriously as English and algebra, we would produce more leaders and independent thinkers, who would have a plan for the next five, ten, twenty years in the future. Instead we have the Department of Education promoting agendas that aren’t taking anyone anywhere! “We’ve already taken away the Arts. How about we take away a science” “Maybe we should extend the lunch period” “Oooh I have an idea! Let's let students out 5 minutes early but let’s have school start 10 minutes earlier this year!” “Maybe we should extend the school year by a month” “Maybe we should shorten it by two weeks.”

Politics and politicking. Utterly useless for the adults of tomorrow. How about we give a leadership development class, so when the time comes to lead a family, employees or a team we know how? How about a course on taxes so that future taxpayers understand what taxes are, what they are for and how to pay them? How about an investment club that will teach students to think longer term about production, rather than short-term consumption? How about supporting business incubation so that students come out of high school with solid business ideas that will promote financial independence instead of looking forward to retirement? Where are the classes on how to live an extraordinary life?

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