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They call it ācheatingā. That bad it is. The school system, the system paid and sustained by your taxes. They train students to take tests on their own. If a child attempts to cooperate at test time⦠as I said⦠it is called ācheating.ā In the real world, business owners cooperate at test time. Engineers cooperate at test time. And so on⦠In life, except in the critical time for your brain, school time, every day is test time. Then, they penalize you to make mistakes. You do a mistake; you fail the test. You are blamed, even ridiculed. In real life, many entrepreneurs donāt really become businesspeople until after they lose their first business. Salespeople, the same. You must lose many sales, to become good at work. We continue to be trained and wired as in the industrial times when we needed meat for the factories. The damage to your brain can be permanent. Scaping almost impossible. I donāt know what you do, or how you want your children to be educated. But I want my child to learn by doing, and by making mistakes. I want him to be creator and innovator. Iāve been in corporate life for too long to know that staying busy in your busyness and not building anything is chain your future to a blackberry. You can also start building. On the side, without stupid risks. With the two feet on the ground. Building a career increasing your options. Building a business without risking your life. Building your wealth without breaking a bank. Common sense. āJoin my mentorship - Only $24.90 - LAUNCHING PRICEā PD 1: If you liked this email, don't keep it in secret and forward it to a friend. They will thank you enormously one day. PD 2: If somebody has sent you this email and you want to receive emails like this yourself, visit vicentevalencia.com PD 3: If you want unsubscribe, click the link below. |
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Talking to good friends in Ferrovial and health & safety, we end up comparing cultures. Comparing projects. And disasters⦠UK. In the 2000s. Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Budget: more than Ā£4 billion Big⦠very big project, with lots of complexities and workers. Every engineer knows that⦠If something went wrong⦠it wouldnāt be small. So, they treated safety like a system⦠for real. Not a slogan. Daily briefings. Clear reporting lines. No ambiguity on responsibility. And⦠Anyone could stop the...
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