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"Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation." -- George Carlin
@@fimelsin5308 Actively theorizing about things outside the material world or the inner workings of our universe which we can not observe isn’t such a simple process, it’s actually relatively complex. Trying to see beyond the 5% of what we feel we’ve accurately perceived and established is an enriching, painful, and statistical nightmare for any one perspective.
I had a teacher in high school that would always say “THINK!!!! QUESTION EVERYTHING! Don’t let them put you in a box!!” And I feel like that was such a powerful message, and the older I get it has more and more meaning.
I did too, and she was the teacher nobody liked - I realize now kids didn’t like her because she had great stoic values. Friends thought I was weird for liking her, but she was telling truths we weren’t ready for! They’re out there!
The problem is that many teachers actually still do say that, that's not really the issue. The issue is that nobody listens, and few people are even intelligent enough to think constantly, question everything and not be lied to all on their own. That is something that's very very difficult especially for a child.
@@reneablackheart9563 i didnt talk about belief. After being able to question everything you can exercice acceptance at a higher lever. Which should be free of belief
I agree with a lot of what’s said. But I also believe that you’ve been programmed to see wealth as success. I like to live with balance. I earn enough to pay for my home, children and go on holiday 4/5 times a year. But I don’t work full weeks, I don’t chase more than I need. I could earn triple what I do and I did before but I was miserable. I spend more time in the gym and the golf course and my all round health is 100% better. I got kicked out of school btw.
@@nikolygtx8848 Robots, maybe. They’re already automating undesirable jobs; under a different system, this would be a good thing for everybody, instead of terrifying for those who need those jobs. Even so, the idea that money is the sole human motivator is stupid. There are a lot of “undesirable” jobs people would still take, even they had money, like agriculture, machining, etc. There are millions of people who want to serve their communities in ways that make a direct impact, but a lot of the jobs that do that don’t pay well, or at all. If money wasn’t an issue, people would still have passions, and a need for fulfillment.
The blessing fo me was the fact in the 10th grade I failed geometry. As my punishment I had to take an alternative math class called Consumer Math. It was all the math we use in society today: banking, interest rates, taxes,mortgages, budgeting,saving,and loans. Because of this class I was further ahead of my peers.
I wished I was punished like that. However, I was glad to be brought up in a household where you were making not only smart purchases but also doing what you can do to extend the life of that purchase to meet your statisfaction. In short, I never felt the compulsive need to buy new things all the time even with money I have earned.
You'd think that schools would rather teach their kids that rather than calculus. No hate towards calculus, I understand that calculus is important for certain jobs, but it should really only be taught to college students who are planning on working in the STEM field. For most people who aren't working in STEM, none of the information used in calculus will be useful.
The funny thing that I don't understand is why could you have just taken the class again the next year. Public schools are doing kids no favors in your scenario. If you took it the next year I bet you would have passed, a bit of maturity and a second time around would have likely been more than enough to have you pass.
Economics was an elective in high school I took because I loved the teacher. That class put me so far ahead of others in college economics classes that they were easy A's. We had "home/car care" at my public high school which made no sense to me until it occurred to me that we will in reality.
the blessing for me was the introduction to the world of video games which made me realize I could be satisfied sitting at a computer my entire life which is dirt cheap lol
I am a teacher and work hard to help my students learn how to think critically. I also encourage creativity. I’m a believer in growth mindset but also being creative and solving problems. I hope any student who comes through my classroom is able to make the life of his/her dreams.
This is so true. We teach our kids to save invest and have an entrepreneurial mindset. We woke up from consumerism and the employee mindset years ago. Live below your means, save and invest, and buy real estate. Learn as much as you can - great video!
Grew up poor became an addict feeling like I could never measure up to societal standards. Fast forward to my mid-thirties, got sober was introduced to self-responsibility and discipline. 9 years later I am self-employed and almost debt free and now turning my focus to dropping my scarcity mindset with money to create a financially secure future with an emphasis on living.
I went to school as super creative child, and ended up mindless. As 10 year old I could write 30 pages story. As 18 year old I barely could write 1 page
It is more likely that you couldn't handle the next level of writing. Writing requires more than just telling a story. Comparing and contrasting and all those other good things are necessary for you to pass and you likely weren't that good at it. Heck, I know we as Americans have terrible grammar, someone has to tell me why we stop doing grammar after Freshman year. The real issue is how much time we have with each course, 180 days of education means you only have English and Math for a total of 360 hrs, is that really enough each year. There is a reason why immigrant children are quite often pushed to attend private schools on the weekend, they get more English and Math training and in some cases it fills in the holes that the public education leaves behind.
I am glad I was programmed (by someone) that "Money can't buy you happiness, but it puts a hell-of-a downpayment on it". I became a Save-a-holic, and investor, because of this.
Also, the ‘crabs in a bucket’ theory.. if you start doing well and the people around you are not, they usually harbour a resentment and will try to pull you back. Very taxing on all levels and defiantly makes it harder to keep going. Going completely alone is like going against human nature, we are wired for connection and to work together to create something
On her first point about schools, I was homeschooled partially for those reasons. I see a big difference in how myself and my coworkers behave in a work environment. This stuff is real. I was never really taught to keep my head down and not question authority and it’s got me into trouble.
This is why I want my kids to be homeschooled but in Maryland they make it so darn challenging by still trying to implicate their school environment into your home and then sending agents to your home to “monitor” your kids work and progress according to their “standards”.
That's what attracted me to the technology sector back in the mid-90s - there weren't any authorities because it was so new. Since then I've found that those in that field who have power positions and abuse them are always two things: authoritative and aggravating. That is, they have very strong interests in standing above and lording over you like you have no free will, no rights, no voice, and are somehow entranced by their success in life. Almost always these people have no IT degree or degree in anything, but see themselves as your superior, the person you need to look up to and take your cues from. They have no comprehension of what type of connection to their employee in a tech field would yield the best outcome from them. It's all attacks, put-downs, assumptions and annoying comments and observations. Assuming you last at all in one of those jobs, you won't enjoy any of the rewards much because it's not about work, it's about satisfying someone with personality problems and a huge ego - not very gratifying to the person on the other end unless you happen to like flattery and obsequiousness.
I really believe the independent thinking doesn’t always come from the education you receive in school. I believe it comes within an individual and the family values. If your parents don’t encourage their children to question everything then there is a real possibility they will become these society robots that go to work and just do what’s expected of them. Those kids will go through life as adults in the same way. They will not question anything in the sake of not disturbing their peaceful life. These children and later adults do not know how to deal with a tense situation, as they tend to most likely ignore it. Their family values maybe there but they were never encouraged to learn due to parents being too busy working and not having enough time to influence their children with the proper values.
After reading financial literacy books on my own during college, I realized how ridiculous it was that we live in a capitalistic society and yet we learn nothing of it in school. Personal finance should be a requirement in school not an elective.
@@laisser-faire3423 Who exactly is 'we'? As far as I'm aware CZcams is pretty global. People who comment come from all walks of life and from different Countries so while you may not view your society as a Capitalist one, the original commenter does. In many ways Capitalism permeates most societies in one way or another.
@@Roxxelana Incorrect. The U.S. is the global hegemony in which every other nation on Earth’s currency value and productivity rests upon. And the U.S. is not true capitalism, it’s not designed as a meritocracy where people move up and gain wealth by working hard. The Nordic countries have much better functioning capitalism with much higher economic mobility than the U.S. and social safety nets and programs that benefit the nations’ prosperity and productivity. The U.S. is an oligarchy and its economic system is crony capitalism, and the disgusting liberals that run the nation exploit third world countries where workers are paid literal cents on the dollar, or are just straight-up slaves. Apple knowingly used slave labor for years, for example.
I highly recommend the book “The Millionaire Next Door.” Thomas Stanley studied 10 thousand millionaires. It shows that millionaires live in paid for houses and rarely buy luxury items.
Thank you, Sorelle! This is a very insightful and thought provoking video. I am a 39 years old continually trying to expand my horizons that create opportunity, abundance and inspiration, while still being authentic to myself. Your explanations have reminded me that consciences awareness is a key step in order to focus/realign the mind, prior to creating a roadmap for potential success. I believe in my own experience that One must focus and “reset” before creating the plan that requires a set of new or existing skills, and then pave the way to take actionable steps - this is a process never too late to begin a new realization. Lastly, some might already have the tools to proceed but it seems applicable that most will require stillness in our busy lives/days to step away from the overwhelming and purposefully built visual-mania that is distracting us and holding us back from our potential success. Subscribed!
I lived my childhood on welfare and foodststamps. We were poor and I didn't know it as a child. As a teen I began to understand that we were poor and accepted what my mom, a single parent of 5, could do. But, blessed with being a super smart kid, I entered a summer enrichment program from 8th to 12th grade which removed me from my environment all summer long and planted me on a college campus where I not only took enrichment courses, but I got to see myself in a different situation. Professors and the summer college experience rewired my mind. I was hungry to graduate high school and college mostly because of this program. Two degrees later, I'm the first in my immediate family to graduate college and enjoy a 6 figure income. I'm 1 of 5 kids and the eldest. My sister, 4th of 5, was in a similar summer program. She too graduated from college and has an above average annual income. The remaining siblings are still stuck in the poverty cycle and mindset. My belief: those enrichment programs reprogrammed 2 of 5 children living under the SAME house! We both broke the poverty cycle because we were removed from 8th grade to 12th grade from our environment long enough each summer to change our mentality about life and what we were capable of doing. There's absolutely something to what this lady is saying. I'm a product of this rewiring. 😌 ❤🙏🏾 The remaining siblings cannot see or think past where they are. It's difficult to even help them see they can be in a better situation. All the help and financial assistance we've given them over the years can't help what the mind can't see. Can't solve a personal lack of hunger for a better life. 😕 Very frustrating. And, I've even seen similar exceedingly smart children in my classes who got better grades, drop out of college or do nothing more past high school and revert back to the poverty mindset they were raised in. A clue, smarts alone, isn't the leg up....seeing yourself somewhere more than where you are IS the advantage. The program gave us that opportunity
I was kicked out of 5 high schools and didn’t really care for school as whole. I always scored exceptionally high on standardized tests all while hardly paying attention. Today I am by far the most successful person I grew up with. I believe it has a lot to do with the fact that I knew from an early age I was never going to work for someone else and decided to start my first business at the age of 17.
@@auroramothergoddess My bachelor's is in accounting. Master's in Business Administration (MBA). I'd rather not say what I do for a living... it's kind of a sensitive position.... however, it does deal with Tax and Accounting😊 I'm considering a second Masters in Biblical Studies and a PH.d in Theological studies. Waiting for my kiddos to grow up a bit. I've got one in college right not. Once she graduates I might start taking classes because I'll have some time before my 2nd goes to college.
In high school we had a bottom tier math class called Financial Recordkeeping. People in it were regarded as not "smart enough" for advanced algebra etc. Looking back the ideals taught were about interest, balancing finances, and other MORE useful skills than anyone else was receiving learning cosines and imaginary numbers. Oh the irony...
What is this electronic economy and stock if not imaginary number inside macine? People learning those math are making contribution through architecture while you only profit yourself. A parasite on society.
This is true. I was in one of these classes for reasons that I don’t remember my senior year. Everyone would laugh at me and not sure why. I was getting knowledge that they did not have access too
They had personal finance as an elective at my high school and I don't understand why it wasn't required as part of the "career readiness" class we were all required to take. I think the idea is that, if you make enough money, you won't have to think about those things. But that's ridiculous because it's hard to avoid lifestyle inflation and save enough money if you don't understand how to budget.
At my high school we had a class like this but it was required to graduate. We also went over reading a bank statement, contracts, basic cooking, sewing. I used to joke they were preparing us to be poor.
Wow. When you said that your parents instilled the mindset of abundance into your life as a child I just about spilled out into tears. How powerful as a parent to do that. Very good.
I grew up in a lower-middle class family and my parents had an attitude about money - of lack. Tight budgeting and not much dreaming for better. When I got my first salaried job at 42k a year I was ECSTATIC. Now I am making in the 20s range as a fresh entrepreneur and very happy with my work. I do get those negative thoughts that tell me a higher salary is so far out of reach but I keep pushing forward because struggle will not be my story!!!
This is why I'm "happy" that I had a chaotic childhood: I didn't go to kindergarten, I have highly critical thinking parents and moved in several countries, I was to busy to adapt to listen to what society wanted us to be like. Today, I'm considered "weird" for not watching TV or listening to the radio, always wanting to have a lot of different sides of one story, doing researches and always questioning everything without going into paranoia. Unfortunately, people think today that what is said on TV is the absolute truth and that the government has no reason to "keep us poor", while it is their main goal.
@@kennethflores93 self educating. Critically thinking people who crave knowledge don’t typically waste time with TV on a regular basis. We’re all given the same amount of hours every day. If you’re using them productively, you don’t need to “pass time”.
Its a tricky word. I have a wealth of friends. I even have a wealth of assets (land). I don't have a wealth of disposable income, which ironically is helping save the world from the people who do.
I always believed we were programmed to be just workers. As a lover of history I learned schools were established to create factory workers, with the knowledge the school system has not changed I came to that conclusion. Curious what this channel has to offer.
I used to date someone who was so entrenched in the idea that she had to give back to her parents as soon as she graduated, forcing her to choose salary jobs over "riskier" endeavors for the guaranteed paycheck. I was lucky enough to have parents who, even though brought up in the same environment, never pressured me into giving back to them and so I was able to choose a career path that I actually loved rather than a degree that's "in demand".
As a teacher intern I got in trouble for trying to teach the kids more…they wanted them to stay at a certain level and claimed they weren’t capable of handling more. The kids were very attentive and cooperative when I tried to teach them more and they were unruly and had a low attention span when I taught them less.
Correct. I watched how quickly my nephew's learned to use a computer. By the time they were 3, they could easily make their way around a computer. Children are sponges. They will learn what you ALLOW them to learn.
Had a teacher that told us that but didn't care , he believed as long as he could impact and teach as many kids as possible he was willing to risk his job to do so and most of us would ask alot of questions and were more attentive. Kids were more disruptive when teachers were just their for the job. I feel as a teacher you can make an impact in these kids lives - they'll remember you and your words will stay with them .
This is so true. I was a straight A student and my brother rarely even got Cs in class. I went to college and my brother didn’t. I am a wife and stay at home mom and we struggle. My brother had no kids/wife and he made his first million before 30. The difference between us is discipline and habits more than anything else. I followed the crowd and what I was told to do. He went his own way.
Sorry, but your education is not the only difference between your brother and you. And probably the difference in your educations is not the cause but an outcome of your main difference. Men and women, statistically speaking, have different psychological treats, women are more agreeable and prioritize security, men are more independent and take some pleasure from taking risks. It's not a coincidence that most of millionaires (not by inheritance) are men, and it's not a coincidence that most homeless are men too.
@@alekz112 Of course I did. And no, is not social condition. It's just evolutionary psychology, game theory proves that the optimal strategy to pass your genes it's different for males and females, and it has been observed in many other sexual animals. Males must take risks to have a chance, females get better results playing safe.
@@alekz112 Do you have a peer reviewed study to back up the claim that you are cognitively capable of processing the information in a peer reviewed study and accurately apply it?
My parents and me never talked a lot about finances, but they taught me one important concept: investing. Not specifically the stock market, but investing in yourself. As long as you invest a lot of money in yourself and your education, then the money is (mostly) well spend. It gave me the courage to take up a loan for my masters degree and continue on with my PhD.
Sorelle, I started following you because of all your pictures from traveling abroad. Some of you and some of your travels, but what your content has changed into is invaluable. I take my hat off. I come here for your opinion and the guidance/perspective that so many channels pretend to have. Cheers to you
Let us get more realistic. We all can not run our own million-dollar-worth business. A good economy works diversely with people filling roles from top to bottom. Similar to the video but to be specific, what makes people poor is both human instinct and programming--people “can not wait”. Put ANY human desire to this line: I can not wait to _________. And that is it!!! Unfortunately any human desire has some cost to it. Nothing is free. Can not wait to buy first stuff. Then once have it, can not wait to upgrade/buy the next stuff. Can not wait to marry, have kidsss and be the best parent by buying everything for the family. And since the human instinct does not like to wait, everything we see is advertised as urgent one of a kind last deal! Worse is instinct also makes us feel “left out” when we don’t have these things. Imagine you working just a normal corporate job that you enjoy BUT not having so many mortages, monthly bills, kids and so many “next stuff” to buy. Even though you can’t afford a private jet, but have enough to enjoy your life and fewer worries makes you richer than most people. Of course some people pull this out, but most don’t. So most are in heavy debt.
By that logic wouldn't there always have to be workers who build others dreams? This mindset is not about liberation for all, it's about liberating yourself, which just perpetuates the cycle, no? This is my understanding of it. I'd be happy to change my mind tbh
@@iyvnx I believe in general youtube platform is about liberating yourself and be narcissistic. There was a seed planted in everyone's head that you can be the most alpha person in the world and own it by holding the globe in your hands. Thanks to the universities and those mundane people on their mundane jobs with discipline, we got this far. By far I mean sitting at home on your ass next to computer having shelter, internet, food, water sewage system etc., giving nice platform for youtubers to bloom. If this video youtuber had no such environment around her, giving her place to think about financial freedom and success of being owner of the business(which is BS and doesn't guarantee success in any way) , she would have no time to think like that and she would be on the mundane job giving the World actual real value.
I'm so glad you started this video by talking about how both mindset and strategy are necessary for financial success, there are so many people who only focus on one and act like the other doesn't exist.
I grew up in the mid '50s to the 70's. The meat of factory work in the US. Our family (extended three generations) left the farm and the men, ladies still stayed home, went to work in an auto plant. Suddenly we were wealthy. Well by our standards. We all actually had houses with hot and cold running water, a furnace and (get this) a bathroom actually IN the house. That was the early 60's. The auto plant was union work. Very good pay and fantastic benefits. Yes school and Sunday school drummed certain ideals in our head. Do good in school my. Graduate and get a good job. Marry your sweetheart. Have lots of babies. Repeat. Not a bad life actually. My family (I'm now the patriarch) of my generation are all well fixed and very comfortable. Our next generation all have advanced degrees. That was our promise to our father/grandfather that our kids would get to start farther up the hill than we did. We were taught the long game. I grew up surrounded by family that lived through the Great Depression. Frugality was, and still is, a way of life. Our family was actually very wealthy in the 1800's. Our patriarch and our wealth were destroyed during the US Civil War. It's been a long time recovering but it's now within reach.
During my entire time in the German school system I had the vague feeling that the main goal is to keep me stupid and make me follow senseless rules. Thank you for the video! You are awesome!
My entire time in the American school system made me feel and believe the same things. I felt my real education started the day I graduated from high school.
They teach you capitalism was always here even though it’s from 1600s(it replaced the efficiency of slavery to business owners by continuing to separate management from labor and dividing and conquering workers as opposed to days of tradesman owners being partners that negotiated wages or percentage of return They teach you that school / business hours are when you work and the elite shops and uses your services, to this day the capital owners still can’t find a solution for when the laborers get to use business hours to do their shopping, That’s why daylight savings time is still employed The key here is that they don’t want you to organize and own your labor or even worse, organize a worker owned cooperative where low skilled workers own everything and hire and fire managers and vote on production schedules where they choose profits and time off in the week to use other business services, Yugoslavia had an entire economy of only worker cooperatives from 1955-1991 and for a great majority of that time, the cia didn’t even economically sabotage it
yeah for me that was the same thing I believed. like the school system doesn't care about how to make a student be successful in life but to just be a small nobody so that you only can work in a 9-5 job for the rest of your days. I never learnt anything good from my school and I hated it. I always thought that school was holding me back to shit standards like only following my teachers' way of doing a thing and not a good way of doing something.
Teacher here! You should read "What Schools Could Be" by Ted Dintersmith. He argues we need to totally revolutionize schools in the US to teach students to be creative problem-solvers, not drones. By focusing on self-directed studies and project-based learning, students can develop into independent thinkers and doers. We just have to get rid of constant standardized testing that keeps most public schools from innovating.
Thank you for the recommendation, I've just ordered it :). I'm a teacher in Scotland, our new(ish) curriculum was designed to promote this kind of learning but as a secondary teacher only having classes a few periods a week and having to meet set outcomes, it's not always easy. Hopefully this book will give me inspiration.
Not everyone is suited to be an entrepreneur. The world always needs worker bees. I say this as one who has started and operated two businesses and employed people in both. Retired now. Love your channel.
Yep. I remember when I was a kid I would constantly ask for small jobs to earn money. I wanted to start a small business, but I needed my parents permission. My parents didn't support me. Whenever I had an opportunity, they pushed me into focusing on school ONLY and become a worker like everyone else. It really destroyed something inside of me.
It's normal in the society before and today, people are susceptible to this "school first" way of life . I agree that early school for a Child is important. But, I believe parents should Support their kids on whatever dream they Hope to pursue.
I think one of the most harmful things we are conditioned to believe is that if you try a path that is different than the classic "work for someone 40 hours a week and eventually retire" then you're doomed to fail. Some days you believe you can break out of that but there's always that voice that says "there's no way"
I completely agree! I think entrepreneurship and doing something 'different' would actually be a great fit for a lot more people, but we're often discouraged and made fearful of it because it's not taught as a 'traditional' approach.
Negativity and hopeles people. Stay away from them! They are cowards, you can have success without risking your neck, and its not like success is SUPER hard, you just have to really try your best.
I am 67. I learned a long time ago about compliance. You are taught something, but instead of creativity being aloud or encouraged, you are literally told how to do it. Math is a BIG example. We were always told to SHOW our work. If you got the right answer, but did not perform the work prescribed by the teacher, it was wrong. Thank you for a great vid. ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
I was born and raised in the projects in Chicago IL during the 70's through the 90s. I was adopted and raised by two agrarian immigrants from the island of Puerto Rico. Although I had my first child in my teens, I graduated from high school and attained a college degree. If it were not for my high school English teacher, I would have never known how to balance a check book. Once I graduated from college, I left Chicago for good. I have lived like a nomad for the past twenty some aught years residing in the states of Louisiana, Washington, and California. In all my travels, I have never once run into someone from my old neighborhood. I knew, from a very young age, not to take someone else's word, or opinions, to heart. That only I could decide what was true for myself; also known as Relative Truth. My schoolteachers, and even some college professor, tried to put a damper on my insights but all failed. Even my adopted parents tried to trample me with their own fears but alas, to no avail. My point in sharing this with you is you hit a very valid note when you spoke of the poverty programming. It comes from everywhere and it is unrelenting. I fought, bled, sweated, and shed many tears to retain my critical thinking skills and my sanity as a whole. Thank you, thank you, and thank you for creating this video Sorelle. Namaste.
In a community college math class, our grades were partially affected by the grade of the people on our "team" in class. I asked the professor why, and he said that the school takes some direction from the requests of local large businesses on what they want their future employees to learn. In this case they wanted their future employees to learn team work, so they chose some classes to teach this in that most people would take. This was a calculus class, where the grade was important to my major, but I had to depend on other students to get A's, which they did not. Even if we studied together, I couldn't make them any smarter or punctual with their homework. The school administration didn't care if I accomplished what I deserved to accomplish, they only cared about their own bottom line, and kissing the rear ends of their benefactors. Local businesses shouldn't have this kind of influence on schools, but they do! Schools are not about helping the individual student's be successful, they are about helping the local businesses program their future human drones.
@@mrkostya008 Math class grades can be essential to getting into other math and science classes, and into a four year or graduate program. It's not fair to the student to have to rely on team mates to keep your grade up. There are other places to build team work skills, like work or sports, or volunteer programs. If a person needs team work skills for a job, they need to go the extra mile and volunteer or work. It's not hard. I did all three.
What you are saying here totally resonates with me . Public school for me was almost traumatic. I was aware at some point that I was just being trained to regurgitate information the way my teachers wanted it. And to fit into a box like you said. My mind is more creative and there was very little in the school system for me.
As someone with good grades, that’s the really the sad secret. I don’t have good grades because i know everything, i have good grades because i learned how to know what the teacher wants me to write
History is possibly the most affected school subject in this sense. Go look for what historical details you cant publicly question without risking jail time or being labelled a conspiracy theorist. Make note also what sort of subjects you can easily find on this platform (CZcams) and what you cannot. Flat earth stuff appears to have to deal with very little censorship for example, and nobody has ever faced jailtime for espousing such beliefs. Galileo at the other end of that spectrum had different experinces in his time. What about matters that can put you behind bars or get you publicly ridiculed today? Questioning or denying Moon missions will not put you into any kind of legal jeopardy. But there are certain things that can.
"When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor" -Paulo Freire One of the things that turned me to communism was the simple question "cui bono", who benefits? If the logic of capitalism is such that the viciously self-interested come out on top, then those in power have a very good reason to try and keep you from resisting them.
I was never a good student. Why? Because I was bored. At home I read constantly. World Book Encyclopedia, books about sports, nature, art, etc. Nothing that was presented to me (even subjects I liked) was done in a way to interest me or further my knowledge. It was tests & that was it. Rote memorization. Mind you, I was born in 1960 when things were nowhere near as bad as now. The true test of intelligence is what you do/study after leaving school. When you are free to seek &, hopefully, learn the truth about yourself, others & all the inane manifest-destiny lies that make up our country's 'history'. If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
I said I needed to break out the matrix. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. Thank you! Saw you on Yes Theory and was so psyched to see a woman on their channel came straight to yours! You literally said everything that I’ve said privately so great confirmation I’m on the right path. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
ive spent so many years telling my parents this exact thing only to be told "you did bad in school because you were lazy", no i did bad in school because i was made to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day learning about things that dont matter, my break was time controlled, my lunch was time controlled, if i left early id be punished by detention, if i showed up late i was punished by detention and you all had to wear the exact same uniform of you'd get punished for not doing that either, not everyone is able to sit and be a perfect drone at school. school was literally a fucking prison that would punish you for thinking outside the box. now that i still hold this same mindset at work , im now told that "youre just being lazy" or "thats life, you have to work a job" when i challenge some ridiculous thing work want me to do. its just so bad right now because 99% of middle aged people who run all the companies now are completely brainwashed into that work work work mindset. its fucking insanity and needs to stop.
Wow! In 5th grade, I had an assignment to write what I would do with a million dollars. I wrote that I wouldn't want it because it goes to your head. You're definitely right about being taught to be poor.
You know something, you are absolutely right. I grew up with the phrase: 'Money will not bring you happiness!", A very common phrase for us Greeks... These words were so deeply imprinted inside my head, inside my brain, that I almost hated it. I had seen thousands times my parents fight over money... Gosh...I myself fought with my husband over money.... as a student, and because the money my parents give me ware peanuts, I had to go days without eating anything ... I arrived to firmly to the final conclusion that money and the lack of it is to by blame for all the evils fate!!! Then one day I asked myself: -All of us, at some point in our lives, will be unhappy. But what is preferable? What can be the least painful? a)To be poor and unhappy? OR b) ....rich and unhappy? Of course, I immediately came to my senses....SO THANK YOU!
True that phrase is the most fallacy i ever heard, if money doesn´t bring happiness, why do you need it to buy food, meds, pay rent, gifts to loved ones and etc. The bad attitude and mindset that people have with money doesn´t bring happiness for sure. My conclusion is a fallacy to keep idiocy floating around. Unless some people likes to feel happy eating grass.
This is a classic case of "Hearing, but not listening". The phrase doesn't mean "Money is going to make you unhappy", nor is it: "You can't be happy with money". The pharse means, very simply: "Materialistic goods \ money, isn't going to MAKE you happy", as in, you're depressed\unhappy, you hate whom you are, and everything in the world, geting money, isn't going to take this away. Having social anxiety, having anorexia, these things don't dissapear, just becasue you get money. That is what it means. Now if you ARE happy with yourself, and you gain money, you'll remain happy ( and perhaps, might be happier, even ), but you're not going to make someone that's self loathing, into an happy person, by giving them wealth. Look at the creator of Minecraft, Markus Persson. He's at the most unhappy he's ever been today, yet, he has "everything ( except his wife, that left him, for multiple reasons )". But again, looking at him shouldn't be a tale of; "Becoming rich will make you unhappy", it should be a tale that, becoming rich isn't going to make your inherent personality flaws, suddenly dissapear. Too many seem to be under that illusion, hence the phrase: "Money doesn't buy happyness", because it doesn't. Happyness comes from within.
@@SknCommonLisper Of course people are going to hear it in different ways, when its so vague. Its simplified a specific situation, and sounds more general than it is. It should be, "If you are unhappy with yourself, money won't make you happier about yourself", or "If you have clinical depression, money can't fix that other than paying for a therapist or treatment". Oversimplifying it in order to make it more of a snappy catchphrase makes it lose it's meaning. It's a stupid saying for that reason. If you have specific monetary reasons for your unhappiness, like for example, not being able to afford food, then money will make you happy. And when you said "Happiness comes from within", that is another over simplification. What if I slowly lower you into boiling water, is the "happiness within" going to shine, or are you going to instantly become very unhappy? People that are happy or unhappy no matter the situation are ill. External events are meant to affect your emotions, in order to effect change. The sad truth is though that some people find themselves in a situation where external events make them unhappy, but they are trapped in that situation.
My favorite quote response to that quote (which is well known here in the US as well): "Money doesn't buy happiness, but it buys one the freedom to not worry about money."
Thank you for saying this! I never put it together that I'm poor because I subconsciously hate money. Definitely going to spend my savings on courses just like you did.
The title reminds immediately that most of us, starting even back in elementary school, are trained by teachers and parents to be employees. Not investors, not enterpreneurs, not execs. A very old problem.
I’ve always thought that I was good at “being at school “. Like even if I wasn’t great at some subjects, I was still being “a good girl”. Loved the discipline, creative boundaries, being told what to do and having a measurable outcomes. Even in the uni. Now being in the real world and realizing that it’s all just biting me in the bottom. Now I’m in a dissonance between who I want to be and who I was with all the patterns and perceptions. Thank you for shedding light on this and always making me stop and think after watching your videos.
Wonderful insights!! You know that you thrive on boundaries and order 🙂. So, you need to set your own boundaries and create your own order - but do it in away that creates habits or guides that direct you where you wish to go... It's very simple. But not easy. Good luck!
You know what's awesome and gives me some hope for the future: the fact that more and more people are becoming aware of this system and how it was designed to keep certain people in power and the rest of us to be stuck in a false sense of powerlessness. This is a common fact now and I hope our entire society informs themselves of how they can rise financially without dependence on abusive corrupt systems.
What is done in schools is tragic. I worked as a consultant to schools for security. The graduation rate in my state is 50%. The native schools famous for their incarceration and abuse in the past have a 30 % graduation rate. You can't be sure of the standards of performance. I should have never graduated from Highschool. The school I went to was just bad. Most teachers were losers. Some were good but most were not. I can remmember three out of all the teachers who helped me. If you can't remember your teachers name they did nothing for you. That is the test. Large class sizes and standardized curriculms- Now CRT destroy learning. Schools are dangerous and negligent. School Law is a fiasco by politicians. School administrations are strangeled by budget limitations, political correctness and liability fears. Most schools routinely violate the many levels of law. It is sick. NO one should give their childern in the formative years of their lives to the government for indoctrination and brain washing. Home school is best. Kids do expotentially better. All studies show it.
Fantastic message, most appreciated:) Born and raised in a Welsh coal mining town, raised by a remarkable woman & very educated grandmother, but I swear, I was in college the first time I heard the word entrepreneur! Thanks for the timely reminder :)
This video really speaks to me for two reasons. One I've been raised in that kind of mindset that money was evil and rich people are selfish etc. All my childhood I felt like a financial burden for my parents because they would complain about not having money a lot. I mean they could barely afford rent, food and bills and now more than ever I understand what kind of pressure and stress it causes you. The second point that really strikes me is the educational system that's design to keep people poor. I've been lucky to develop a critical mind thanks to my mum being a bit of a rebel. I particularly felt the pressure to become a good complacent little soldier when I went to uni for a semester before I had to stop for personal reason, but I hated the fact that they were trying to do that, and that nobody else in my class seemed to be able to feel it. It almost felt like being brain washed. Maybe I was more aware of it because I had left the school system at the age of 15, which I think helped further develop my critical thinking, through the hardship of everyday life as well as constantly overthinking and questioning everything. Now I'm 30 and I'm in a constant financial struggle. I have made many mistakes that brought me here but I genuinely, for the moment, can't imagine earning money. As if I did not deserve to be in a good place financially. There's the context of the upbringing but not only. I have many psychological block that also prevents me from being successful. However, I think I'm going in the right direction because the first step to healing is awareness and I'm currently doing everything I can to get better. Sorry for talking about myself so much but just wanted to share my personal experience from what you talked about in the video. Thanks for the great content.
I'm 68. I was broke for all my youth and got divorced in my 40s and had to start all over. You will be fine. It takes a little time. You are thinking about how to break the mold and that is a big step in the right direction. Invest. Have your money work for you and not the other way around. You will see that I am right one day when you have a 1m net worth.
I relate to you A LOT. My parents were under that stress too when they got bankrupt and we were living poor barely having enough money to pay for bills and eventually my dad took me and my brother to his gym for Christmas this is when I was 8 because he got evicted from his apartment, he was a boxer and the look at my dads face look horrifying to look at. Being poor sucks, and people stigmatize being stupid rich means evil and such, I’m glad you made that decision to leave school because I just graduated and didn’t feel like I learned a single thing from school.
I noticed I had a little more money the older I got. I stopped buying stuff with loans , didn’t eat out as much , stayed home a lot ( witch I like ) The world will suck up the little amount you make. There is plenty to do at home or apartment etc. slow down.
I grew up poorer than any person I know of. In a cabin in the woods with no electricity. My parents were always discussing the lack of money, lived paycheck to paycheck, but had plenty of booze to drink each week. They also didn't take care of anything. So many assets were left outside, like our lawnmowers, shovels, and chainsaws. I went to college despite pressure from my grandparents not too and "gain all that debt". Now that I'm middle class, I truly believe being middle class is much harder than being poor. When I was poor, there was an excuse for everything. Now that I'm middle class, I take care of everything, all the time, and protect my assets. When I was a kid, that mostly junk lawnmower was left outside and lasted a few months, then we needed another. Now that I'm middle class, I still got a second hand lawnmower from the neighbors, put it under cover, change the oil regularly, etc. and it's lasted for years. Same with a shovel. Yeah it's "cheap", but I no longer have to buy one every year. So many items are like this. When I was poor we bought the same stuff over and over, all because of laziness. When you don't have much money, you can supplement with sweat equity... I rarely see the poor doing this... and I don't see the poor doing it, because the people that build these habits will no longer be poor. It doesn't matter what job you have.. you can take care of your stuff and make it last. I also now understand the difference between needs and wants, which is another trap poor people fall into. I can now afford a lot more 'toys', but choose not too, unless I can pay cash, in lieu of financing. The poor should not be financing ATVs, boats, campers, etc. etc., but they do everyday... often in lieu of critical bills like a mortgage or other bills. Personal responsibility matters.
The truth is that we teach what we know and what we are. I can’t figure out how so many people in the US manage to hate so many others and still claim to be Christian. Is that also programming?
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing truth and you have a great smile! I knew nothing about finances, saving, taxes, mortgages, or anything until I was like 25 years old and needing to figure out the finances with my new wife at the time. Once I began learning about how to handle money, my wife and I stopped our debt mentality and honestly we are kind of stuck in my opinion and I've been thinking about it. The only debt we have is a mortgage and we have money saved. With prices increasing over the last few years I realize I don't feel financially free even though we are better off than statistically about 78% of people. However, the older I get, the more I am thinking that I would like to do easier work not tied to a regular job that sucks the life out of me and have plenty of money left over doing something I love so that also my wife can take care of the kids full time as well. So I am thinking and praying about what I can do to change. I think the key is not following the crowd like you said. It can make you feel good, but sometimes alone lol!
George Carlins final stand up act, writ large… “They call it the American dream, cause you gotta be asleep to believe it” Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
I saw a comment recommending the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," so looked it up and the audio book is free on CZcams. 10 minutes in there's a quote, "Money is one form of power, but what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone doesn't work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works so they spend their lives working for money." ... the words "BUILDING wealth" stick out to me as a reminder that it does not happen overnight, and its okay to start wherever you are. About to start my journey of building wealth through financial education. Thanks Sorelle for opening the conversation
100 agree. I loved the book, sooo many lightbulbs went of when I heard it. Consistency and repetition are the keys to success. The difference between a master and a student is that the Master failed 1,000 times whereas the student doesn’t even want to fail. A lot of people are afraid of failure. If you can push past failure again and again you can achieve success. Its the law of rhythm.
I recall at school the head teacher telling us to get the daft idea out of our head 'that if you work hard, you will become a success in life'. He hated Thatcher & this rhetoric and told us that this only applied to the middle classes because they have the contacts., while the working class simply needed to know their station in life.
You can escape the poor mindset even without paying a cent. On torentsites you can find free books for kindle, free courses and so on. Coming from an ex communist very poor country, this was my only option, but it changed my life. Ten years ago I was spending all my salary (200 euro/dollars) and was always in debt. I needed a few years of books and videos to change my mindset then another 3-4 years to save a few thousand euros to be able to start a business. Now I make more than 50.000 euro in profit per year, which is huge here in eastern europe. So yes, mindset is very important and you need to start with this, but as Sorelle says, you also need skills. I would say you also need DISCIPLINE and DETERMINATION. If it can be done from a poor eastern european (ex communist) country, it can be done from any capitalist country.
@@TheJaniable Begin with Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Then Richest Man in Babylon. Afterwards Four Hour Work Week. All can be found on this platform as audiobooks.
Reminds me of one of the crazier reject stories: How much is half a kilo? A: 5000g (written down answer!) Uhm, maybe too many zeros? A: no Sure? A: yes Okay, we won't call you. And i live in a non america country, so metric is normal. That was good "the fuck?" moment of our HR guy. I regularly get the "best off"s. This one stuck. Well the actual number 1 is german business law specific. Breaks down to: The company type needs to be in the legal name (iE "limited" and the like, so that's at the very least convention internationally). Someone who applied to a management position gave a *very* layman answer to to what the abbreviation in the name of the company they applied to means. The answer was so bad it implied heavily they did not even know about the aforementioned fact. That's like a farmer telling you that an "acre" is what teenagers get on their face. I found that out because my boss was very visible upset about that after the interview. But i get that, stuff like that still shocks me regularly.
@@adrienneabraham4856 I'm not a kid but I don't think they are all like that, come on. Haha! Also, your second sentence didn't need an exclamation mark since it's not an imperative sentence. Sorry if my English is bad. This is not my first language.
Great explantions about manipulation in the education. I live in Canada and I had the chance to be educated in private institutions where I learned how to think and discriminate between things after which I also became a teacher. All the same, I was also brought in a puritannical catholic mentality where money was taboo and as such, I was never tought how to use it, handle it and mosltly make it. Relsult, at 77years of age, I am a sharp critical thinker but I have remained financially challenged all my life. It' s great that you educate younger people to awaken to their real possibilities. P.S. I put the playback at 75% and, not only does it make you sound like a real person but it gives me enough time to understand what you are talking about. Thank you.
Hearing all the stories about people, that just won a lot of money in some lottery and then lost everything in few months - you are right. We are programmed to be poor
The section about 'being programmed to be workers' has a strong undercurrent of classism to me, especially when emphasising over and over that employees are drones/meat machines and that workers are mindless as a class. If I snapped my fingers and suddenly everyone was an entrepreneur/ business owner, and no one was an employee, then realistically who would be a worker for those businesses? Even the fact that people are making money on CZcams talking about breaking free functions off of ad revenue that is aimed at consumption, primarily consumption by... yeah... middle class workers. I get that so many of these type of channels are meant to be inspirational, preach freedom, breaking out of the molds of society, etc., but I also find much of that messaging to be inherently classist. This channel is still, fundamentally, supporting the current system of capitalism and preaching that a select few can live on the blissful fringes of this system and lord it over those 'programmed' to be 'stuck'. I don't believe the way to find freedom is to just pull yourself to the top of the capitalist heap, be self-employed, and then crow about enlightenment while finger wagging about the middle class 'wage workers' who 'just don't get it'. This feels a bit like Horatio Alger bootstraps for a new generation, but calling it enlightenment. Fundamentally, as another commenter mentioned, this simply isn't scalable and relies on an inevitable 'trapped/worker/drone' class to continue to be 'programmed to be poor' as you say. You preach about the problem but your solution seems to just be to be sure to be one of the ones that scramble to the top and enjoy the benefits while everyone else stays stuck so the system keeps running and allows you to benefit. Seems like a pretty fatal flaw in the philosophy...
Well there’s always going to be plenty of low IQ people to be worker bees as the low IQ actually reproduce MORE, and since the industrial revolution, most are able to live relatively long lives. So you really should consider mate selection as it’s nolonger solely darwinian based. On the other side you’re only going to have so many higher IQ people and simply creative or motivated types to actually take responsibility and risk to start their own gig, as both require longterm styles of thinking. Classist perhaps, but the spirit of the video is more of an implication on the school system than society itself The school system hasn’t evolved to allow for any freedom or creativity but instead this idea of conformity and risk aversion. It’s also terribly inefficient and now sexist as it makes life hell for boys, which, is why boys are now trying to become girls just to feel accepted within the group…. Fast forward years later - women whining “where are all the REAL men?!”
Well, taking what you wrote into consideration, what is the better way? An entire systemic overhaul? Recognizing how the system sorts each of us out into the aforementioned categories is already a good start. If you can't break the wheel then adjusting where you fit in the system as the wheel turns is a better strategy. I look at it as the human condition.
We have never lived in a time where everyone was just doing their own thing and there were no workers because of it. On the contrary, mayority of people have been poor, unemployed or working for someone else. Those who don't manage to get to a better position will in the future be substitute by machines.
The reality is that living in the middle class in America is still better than living on any other country in the planet. Aside from maybe Nordic countries that are 99% 👱👱♀️ with no 👦🏿 people. The earth is never going to be perfect
A lot of people that don’t have God and Jesus, want to believe that they can make earth a paradise on earth. But the only paradise exists in heaven with Jesus. God literally makes it physically impossible for the earth to be perfection. It’s never going to happen
She's so right. In my 10 years of working on financial freedom, I noticed there's a universal mindset and a shared knowledge amongst people that "got out." She's essentially laying it all down in this video.
@@vidalskyociosen3326 Yeah people have the wrong idea, you "getting out" of the system is not a solution since the majority will always be part of it. The only way to cause true change is for the system to fundamentally change (probably with the help of automation, AGI, etc...)
I loved that video. I'm so stuck I can't go ahead, even though I desperately want to get free from this trap. Thank you for your content...it's really important to spread it more widely!!!
Little house on the prairie is a good example. The town built a school house, hired a teacher and sent their #1 son or daughter there to get education hoping that they would bring it home and improve the families life by mean of it.
I was programmed to work by my Mother! Of course she was from the generation of the great depression. I’m glad she pushed us & it was beneficial in the workforce.
Good day @Sorelle, I am happy that you are also speaking openly about this. I am currently embarking on a mission to start working with schools to give children the needed mindset shift so that they too can realise that they too can achieve all they want. I value your inputs that you've shared with us here, I'm subscribed for more. "None of us are as smart as all of us." - Ken Blanchard
The education system is luckily changing in some countries. In Estonia, we’ve had business skills taught in schools for years now and there’s a national competition for student companies. The students have to come up with a unique product and a big fair is organised where they sell their stuff. It’s great! :) You can also take a business course at any university, no matter what you’re studying. So things have been improving 😊
The devil is in the details. I have held blameless the educator who had me stay back a grade at the age of seven (US school). Though the act destroyed my self esteem and had me imprint on abject failure....I believed that, at the time, my best interests must have been considered. With all social contacts severed, and no extra support offered, (think the education system in the early 1950's) the bright and gregarious young boy I was... morphed into a withdrawn and conflicted one. An early phase of rebellion was tamped down with endless punishment homework. I eventually just shriveled up, turned eighteen, and entered the world a depressed, sad, and lost pliable drone. Millions (billions?) like me, pressed into the service of the controlling few. A complete and utter squandering of the bright promise of humanity. Will the general public ever awaken and react? What will they do?
Most of this is a social problem, not a system problem. The point you made about how you look at money based on your upbringing is probably the best point you have here. There's so many kids at college right now that look at money like it's the devil, hate capitalism, hate financing and wish that things were just per some monthly quota and not needing management. Tells you a lot about their parents and raising. But that's not the systems fault, that's the parents fault. And the system itself is mostly a simplified reflection of social wants. The core thing people need to learn about financing is that it's by far the best metric we have to display how well someone manages their time and skills. If you're financially struggling, you need to look at what you're mismanaging.
Well Sorelle, i listened to the whole video and I miss a view important things. But before I go forward i have to say that a lot of rich rich billionaires or Millionairs are very empty people. Nothing seems to satisfied no more and they are in to weird stuff. That’s why maybe they be looked at as living on a darker side. Not all of them to make myself clear. The important things I am missing is what you should have in the first place. Feeling good and comfortable with your self. Know how to enjoy yourself, what makes you feel happy instead of or before you are going for the BIG money. I think it is more important to know- also if you think a lot of people will stay poor, how to accept your life and feel satisfaction in the things you can do. To stay healthy, or create more fun or to discover your potentials you have in you. That sort of activations to take action on. Stop smoking, choose the right options, healthy choices, have love and joy with your self and others. Bring this to the next step of creation when your fundament is ready for take off and start create something you would love to do. Then money can crow on you and you learn how to keep it. When I look at you you already had those ingredients. And a fine up bringing. You where positive about yourself I believe already. Abundance doesn’t have to do with money only. It is how your mindset is about what you believe you are capable of and the enthusiasm and joy to find out how many potential you have. This kind of Abundance. Eager to learn, knowing you may fail in order to learn. Not programming to becoming a Millionaire but programming to become a super human being in what kind of state you will be with or with out money, you know what you have is enough. It doesn’t make you sad. You are also spiritual rich to overcome it all🤗❤️ to gaine big money only should not be your drive. Abundance for who you are and want to become looks to me a worthy and valuable path to go on to.🤔❤️
The test I've used on myself since I was 18 - at any point in time, I ask myself, "Am I producing or consuming right now?" I played a lot of video games at that time. I decided they weren't worth my time - if anything, I'd rather program games. So I studied Computer Science. 10 years later, I don't even have a computer that can run most modern video games, which keeps me from getting too distracted from my actual life goals. My job involves some video game skills, but actually solves real life problems for real people instead of just entertaining (or worse, addicting) them - I realized that was one of my deeper goals as well. If you want to reprogram yourself and actually find out what your goals are, I highly suggest listening to Jordan Peterson, especially about his writing courses (self authoring). Journaling is a great way to reorient yourself. If you can't write, you can't think.
I recognize myself in every word. My parents were programmed to be poor and still push that boxed vision on me. It's hard to reshape your mindset and actually do something worthy.
My mom’s family taught me to be poor with purchases from rent to own and other revolving debt. I made excellent money when I was a young man and my mom s family talked me into buying stuff all on credit. I follow Dave Ramsey now and and digging myself out of $100k of student debt.
When I went back to school to get new skills EVERY class kept saying "your employer will want" I was stunned and learn it is the large corporations that tell the schools what classes to offer and what to teach the drones.
True, the rich villains are not difficult to find, but not every rich person is villainous; and certainly not every poor person is virtuous. Seperating virtue from wealth allows one to be more clear sighted
@@Tarq666 That is exactly what Jonas Salk did! Salk was immediately hailed as a "miracle worker" when the vaccine's success was first made public in April 1955, and chose to not patent the vaccine or seek any profit from it in order to maximize its global distribution.
I think the definition of "poor" needs to be up front, as many will have a very different definition. Not being a millionaire does not mean being poor, and having lots of money and physical wealth does not mean you are rich or successful. There is good advice in here, but the audience is clearly people who want to have lots of cash so they can forget all the advice and buy all the stuff they're being sold.
@ Right, so consider what services/how much time you are going to trade to receive all this money. The world isn’t going to hand it to you. All those experiences you refer to, someone must do the work of flying the plane, keeping the hotel room clean, maintaining the cities you want to visit etc. Do you think their time spent doing such things is not valuable?
Her advice is basically the old "‘Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps’" shit that privilege people have been peddling forever. She completely ignores the benefits that being an attractive white female gives to her.
Very good insights in being optimistic rather than being pessimistic. I remember my father brought home always negative ideas, that was broadcasted to him from his workplace, and applied to us. Later, I worked at a similar facility and heard the same negative broadcasts. One example is when you had accomplished something good at your workplace, your supervisor discouraged or made a negative comment of your accomplishment. I realized then that it was gimmicks to foil yourself to ruin. Presently, I build things at home that are useful and needful. Moreover, you have to reassure your client or customers, and even prove that your product works, since some of these customers grew up and heard similar negative rhetoric from their parents and/or from their workplaces.
I understand what you mean, and I struggle seeing myself succeed against large businesses. I'm fascinated by aviation and would love to design planes and sell them. The problem is companies like Cessna, Boeing, Cirrus, and Lockheed Martin, make it seem impossible to compete in any area of aerospace. Everything from private to commercial to military aviation is controlled by very few, very large companies that weild so much power. Sometimes I wish I was around in the 1920's and 1930's so I could get my foot in the door. Before anyone was powerful enough to shut me out. For now I see my best hope in joining them and working for them, just to have my name attached to these marvels of engineering.
I resent these types of books. Because most of these self help gurus are not genuine business creators. They make money by telling people how to make money by selling their books etc about making money. in other words it feels like a con or a pyrimid scheme.
One of the biggest problems becoming rich is, when you get there, nothing changes, except realizing that what you thought it could buy, it cannot. If your primary goal is money, you have already lost the game. Money needs be a by-product, not the goal.
In the album No Pressure by the rapper Logic, he discusses that specifically, talking about how money and fame brought him more suffering and problems rather than happiness, and he’s retired from the mainstream and now lives with his wife and baby and makes awesome underground mixtapes instead of competing in the music industry and trying to top charts. He no longer makes money from his latest albums because of all the samples on them that he has to pay to clear.
@@hadookin47 Exactly right. If your art depends on someones else it's doomed. May make the money, but the pressure from the group, the label, the TEAM etc. destroys any joy. "Too many cooks, spoil the broth."
Money (real money), property, and other material things are only a portion of wealth. Wealth also includes the things that are not material: honour, love of others, being loved by others, self-respect, etc. are just as important, or even more so.
@@jayecurry1369 Absolutely right. Unfortunately we look at the word "wealth" as being purely material in general and in terms of dollars/possessions in particular. However, I have learned that words as abstractions need to be fleshed out and understood for more than they appear at first glance, they can have, and do have multiple meanings. Definition of wealth: 'an abundance of valuable possessions or money.' but if one digs a little deeper: 'a plentiful supply of a particular desirable thing.' Now that desire may not be money only. It, as you say, can include: honor, self respect and generosity.
@@fromthepeanutgallery1084 You are absolutely right 2. I often hear Democrats referring to high income people as being the wealthiest, even thought those high income people are often materially poor owing to wasting their money rather than investing it, like many football player. An amazing number of them file for bankruptcy within 10 years after retiring from earning multi-millions a year while playing.
I used to watch your photo vlogs all the time. This was such a nice treat to see you've branched into educating in other areas. You're brilliant at it!
It's important to point out that society's programming is not capitalism. China does this, North Korea does it, Russia does it. It's not capitalism. Americans blame capitalism for being in a society.
"Start with the free stuff... Knowledge is power... Wisdom is the execution of knowledge." It is such a wise decision to take action on the free advice given through this free platform. All I have to pay is $Attention.00
As a person with a Masters Degree I do think schools are important. Literacy and numeracy are essential for success and autonomy. University did improve my reading and writing skills. Practice does make perfect. Many people only practice with the pressure of a teacher. Online learning does give us incredible access to the best minds, but many people actually lack motivation without a real life teacher of some sort.
I don't think she was knocking education, just the current institution. Once you get to the university level I think there is critical thinking and value, which is why many students do poorly their first year since they are not used to that level of rigor. I left my career as a teacher because I didn't agree with how we were institutionalizing our kids and I hated being part of that system.
Also as a person with a masters degree in the creative arts, I believe school has more disadvantages than advantages. I agree that literacy and numeracy are important. But for day to day lives our numeracy doesn’t go much further than elementary school, the rest just isn’t practical to us unless we want to be a mathematician or use it in any scientific field. Also the saying “practice makes perfect” is utterly wrong. Improper practice will not make perfect, the saying should be “perfect practice makes perfect” but then again, is it possible to be perfect? Secondary school should be for life skills as sorelle mentioned, finances, first aid, social skills etc. Not only is the modern schooling system programming people poor, it’s encouraging homelessness and mental health issues. I’m in the UK, they send you out for 2 weeks worth of work experience at 15/16 years old over the course of 5 years. That’s not good enough, most leave school with an unclear mindset and work mundane jobs they hate and apply for dead end jobs for the next 10/20 years of your life. Hmmm yes school has really set you up for life there hasn’t it. Learn to look after yourself first. That is what life should be about. Cook good food, go out and socialise, learn practical life skills, surround yourself with successful people and much more. We’re humans, we need social interaction, too many teachers that have been teaching for long periods of time become withdrawn, negative and hateful and cannot be bothered with kids anymore. I know because I am a teacher myself. The more we educate about life the clearer a vision you leave school with, school is not life. It’s such a small proportion of it. Do good in school by all means. But remember, we’re learning what our parents, grand parents, great grand parents Learned, teaching the same thing through the generations, but yet they don’t remember half of it and can’t teach it to us themselves when they are our family, what does that tell you? It’s not a sufficient system.
Just like everything else, it all depends on various things. School is good for professions like medicine, law, etc not because you get the best education there, but for credibility and having a license to practice. Many other fields too, but I'll just use those as an example. However, MANY MANY fields do not need one to go to university. Not only is it a waste of time, but money on a large scale too. I am a Computer Scientist and by the time I graduated I had basically taught myself almost everything using online resources. For me and many others in my field, school was a huge waste of time and money. The most fvcked up part is that we were taught outdated nonsense and this wasn't even unique to my school. It just wasn't worth it. As far as literacy in multiple disciplines is concerned that varies with each person. Some people are very good at very young ages, reason better than most adults and are quite imaginative. I'd argue that today, for most fields there are many online free resources that are exponentially better than university.
You don't have to go through a university to be good at anything. All education institutions are to program people to think in a particular way. Right is wrong and wrong is right is being taught to our children. Ex. Pronouns, common core, sexual identities, racial ideations, and on and on
Thankyou Sorelle. It’s always amazing to hear your wealth of knowledge shared here and encourages me that I’m on my way to the goal. I do eft tapping a lot to transform poverty consciousness which often is passed down ancestrally through our family… generations of poverty consciousness holding most people back and it is a real thing that most people don’t want to acknowledge. I’ve been attacked online for attempting to. Their cynicism and skepticism about Law of Attraction etc won’t allow them to look at any of this and it’s a real shame but everyone is where they are at. Can’t change them
In my experience, not earning much and having an aversion to buying on credit has made it simple for me to refrain from buying the latest and greatest products. Thinking for myself helps, too.
I've heard a lot of this when I was a kid in a poor family. Money doesn't make you happy. I grew up thinking that if you had anything good, then something bad will happen to you, but you could have as much bad stuff without anything good. It took a long time to feel like I could have something awesome or have awesome stuff happen to me without paying a huge price.
Oh, I went to school in Germany, how our school was not build for modern economy was always a big topic! Even though it improved, and we have a lot of critical thinking subjects, the lack of actual improvement of the school system is crazy
Sorelle and Leon, can your organization help those affected by a business's failure? I started a retail business with a shoestring budget. In spades, I had the motivation - and ignorance, NOT know what I was getting myself into - lol. I spent seven days a week and up to ten hours a day working it - I loved holding the reigns. What I did not love was what I put my wife and kids through, me not being there for them as much as they wanted me to be. Things went south when I acquired a business partner and finally took a vacation (after four years!) Long story short, when I returned, my new business partner ignorantly sabotaged my efforts, and the store could not recover from it. (Well, I thought I could recover, but I was starting all over, and my wife had enough, threatening divorce papers.) This really affected me so much that I could not get back on that horse (but, of course, I wanted to.) After that, I read all the material I could find at the time to figure out what I did wrong. I was the typical scenario of failure in those readings. My wife and I are empty nesters now, and I would like to start again, but I feel what I was passionate about is no longer relevant. I KNOW BUSINESS IS THE ANSWER - believe me, I know it - but you have to have an absolute LOVE in what you are doing, or you will grow to hate it - if there is any way you can really address this for me I would really appreciate it. Thank you!
49 and just a few years ago I went back to school to float. I changed my mind then and will no longer work for any one else. I have been teaching my children as well as a single mom the same things you are teaching here. My kids are going to thrive and not just survive in this system. I decided 2 years ago to start a non profit to teach single moms just what you are teaching here. Im glad I found you. Now Im going to learn all I can from you as well as a few others to change our lives. THANK YOU.
i grew up poor, my parents grew up poor, my grandparents grew up poor, my whole family lineage were birthed and died in poverty. But that will not be me.
I remember school. We evolved from fish. Then apes. I got out of school and was liberal. Didn't know why right away. It was school. Listened to Rush one day. He challenged me to challenge my beliefs. Had a business for ten years. It was great!
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Think and Grow Rich talks about this, that's how I learned about what you are speaking about in this video! Thank you for another gift
Thank you for being here and watching!
girl...... you are my hero!!!!!!
This video made me subscribe today.
Are you scandinavian?
"Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation."
-- George Carlin
And that's done even more easily by religion helping to keep them simple minded among other things.
@@fimelsin5308 Actively theorizing about things outside the material world or the inner workings of our universe which we can not observe isn’t such a simple process, it’s actually relatively complex. Trying to see beyond the 5% of what we feel we’ve accurately perceived and established is an enriching, painful, and statistical nightmare for any one perspective.
"It's a big club.....and we aint in it"....Carlin really was way ahead of his time.
@@patrickadams7120 Definitely
@@clearjh943 and how many religious people are actually doing this or are most of them just buying expensive watches for their pastor coz he said so?
I had a teacher in high school that would always say “THINK!!!! QUESTION EVERYTHING! Don’t let them put you in a box!!” And I feel like that was such a powerful message, and the older I get it has more and more meaning.
he conditioned you to question everything. Now you are prepared for the next level... accepting everything! lol
I did too, and she was the teacher nobody liked - I realize now kids didn’t like her because she had great stoic values. Friends thought I was weird for liking her, but she was telling truths we weren’t ready for! They’re out there!
The problem is that many teachers actually still do say that, that's not really the issue. The issue is that nobody listens, and few people are even intelligent enough to think constantly, question everything and not be lied to all on their own. That is something that's very very difficult especially for a child.
@@dreaming_butterfly1970 ...No that's literally the opposite. Blind belief comes from a lack of questioning.
@@reneablackheart9563 i didnt talk about belief. After being able to question everything you can exercice acceptance at a higher lever. Which should be free of belief
I agree with a lot of what’s said. But I also believe that you’ve been programmed to see wealth as success.
I like to live with balance. I earn enough to pay for my home, children and go on holiday 4/5 times a year. But I don’t work full weeks, I don’t chase more than I need. I could earn triple what I do and I did before but I was miserable. I spend more time in the gym and the golf course and my all round health is 100% better. I got kicked out of school btw.
Seems like a good life, how you doing presently?
Most people venture into crypto to be a millionaire meanwhile I just want to be debt Free
That's very practical and smart goal, a wise man once said do everything in your power to get out of debt one of his tips on getting rich
Just do the right thing by trading with an expert trust me you will be successful and debt free
I'm looking for something to venture into on a short term basis, I have about $6k sitting in my savings
Obviously trading in bitcoin is very volatile and risky to trade that's the reason most traders trade with a company
Now is the best time to purchase and invest in Bitcoin stop proscastinating!
Remember: the American school system isn't about education, it's about making submissive and obedient workers.
Not just American. Cheers from Europe.
Imagine scenario where we all had money and no one went to work,
who its making food and rest of things you enjoy?
@@nikolygtx8848 in this system this is a problem, of course. But it doesn't change the fact that our entire system is broken.
Turkish school system literally raise mindless race horses.
@@nikolygtx8848 Robots, maybe. They’re already automating undesirable jobs; under a different system, this would be a good thing for everybody, instead of terrifying for those who need those jobs. Even so, the idea that money is the sole human motivator is stupid. There are a lot of “undesirable” jobs people would still take, even they had money, like agriculture, machining, etc. There are millions of people who want to serve their communities in ways that make a direct impact, but a lot of the jobs that do that don’t pay well, or at all. If money wasn’t an issue, people would still have passions, and a need for fulfillment.
The blessing fo me was the fact in the 10th grade I failed geometry. As my punishment I had to take an alternative math class called Consumer Math. It was all the math we use in society today: banking, interest rates, taxes,mortgages, budgeting,saving,and loans. Because of this class I was further ahead of my peers.
I wished I was punished like that. However, I was glad to be brought up in a household where you were making not only smart purchases but also doing what you can do to extend the life of that purchase to meet your statisfaction.
In short, I never felt the compulsive need to buy new things all the time even with money I have earned.
You'd think that schools would rather teach their kids that rather than calculus. No hate towards calculus, I understand that calculus is important for certain jobs, but it should really only be taught to college students who are planning on working in the STEM field. For most people who aren't working in STEM, none of the information used in calculus will be useful.
The funny thing that I don't understand is why could you have just taken the class again the next year. Public schools are doing kids no favors in your scenario. If you took it the next year I bet you would have passed, a bit of maturity and a second time around would have likely been more than enough to have you pass.
Economics was an elective in high school I took because I loved the teacher. That class put me so far ahead of others in college economics classes that they were easy A's. We had "home/car care" at my public high school which made no sense to me until it occurred to me that we will in reality.
the blessing for me was the introduction to the world of video games which made me realize I could be satisfied sitting at a computer my entire life which is dirt cheap lol
I am a teacher and work hard to help my students learn how to think critically. I also encourage creativity. I’m a believer in growth mindset but also being creative and solving problems. I hope any student who comes through my classroom is able to make the life of his/her dreams.
This is so true. We teach our kids to save invest and have an entrepreneurial mindset. We woke up from consumerism and the employee mindset years ago. Live below your means, save and invest, and buy real estate. Learn as much as you can - great video!
Grew up poor became an addict feeling like I could never measure up to societal standards. Fast forward to my mid-thirties, got sober was introduced to self-responsibility and discipline. 9 years later I am self-employed and almost debt free and now turning my focus to dropping my scarcity mindset with money to create a financially secure future with an emphasis on living.
I’m proud of you!
I love this emphasis on living and dropping the scarcity mindset.
Utter respect for you for turning your life and mindset around. All the very best to you. Go you! 🙏🏼💕
I’m on the same road. 35 now. Small business incoming lol
Heck yea!!! This is awesomely awesome.
Sending you so much more success and happiness.
I went to school as super creative child, and ended up mindless. As 10 year old I could write 30 pages story. As 18 year old I barely could write 1 page
Our school system is messed up because it was made for industry workers so they put the children there because them worked in the industry.
It is more likely that you couldn't handle the next level of writing. Writing requires more than just telling a story. Comparing and contrasting and all those other good things are necessary for you to pass and you likely weren't that good at it. Heck, I know we as Americans have terrible grammar, someone has to tell me why we stop doing grammar after Freshman year. The real issue is how much time we have with each course, 180 days of education means you only have English and Math for a total of 360 hrs, is that really enough each year. There is a reason why immigrant children are quite often pushed to attend private schools on the weekend, they get more English and Math training and in some cases it fills in the holes that the public education leaves behind.
One page of yours now is far more valuable than 10 pages of garbage from when you knew nothing. You learned to stop saying bs.
I feel you. I used to read all the time and by the time I reached senior year I could barely focus on anything.
@@Tom-oz7iy Tom, I crave a writing sample.
I am glad I was programmed (by someone) that "Money can't buy you happiness, but it puts a hell-of-a downpayment on it". I became a Save-a-holic, and investor, because of this.
Also, the ‘crabs in a bucket’ theory.. if you start doing well and the people around you are not, they usually harbour a resentment and will try to pull you back. Very taxing on all levels and defiantly makes it harder to keep going. Going completely alone is like going against human nature, we are wired for connection and to work together to create something
On her first point about schools, I was homeschooled partially for those reasons. I see a big difference in how myself and my coworkers behave in a work environment. This stuff is real. I was never really taught to keep my head down and not question authority and it’s got me into trouble.
Tell me about it!
This is why I want my kids to be homeschooled but in Maryland they make it so darn challenging by still trying to implicate their school environment into your home and then sending agents to your home to “monitor” your kids work and progress according to their “standards”.
That's what attracted me to the technology sector back in the mid-90s - there weren't any authorities because it was so new. Since then I've found that those in that field who have power positions and abuse them are always two things: authoritative and aggravating. That is, they have very strong interests in standing above and lording over you like you have no free will, no rights, no voice, and are somehow entranced by their success in life. Almost always these people have no IT degree or degree in anything, but see themselves as your superior, the person you need to look up to and take your cues from. They have no comprehension of what type of connection to their employee in a tech field would yield the best outcome from them. It's all attacks, put-downs, assumptions and annoying comments and observations. Assuming you last at all in one of those jobs, you won't enjoy any of the rewards much because it's not about work, it's about satisfying someone with personality problems and a huge ego - not very gratifying to the person on the other end unless you happen to like flattery and obsequiousness.
Same here!
I really believe the independent thinking doesn’t always come from the education you receive in school. I believe it comes within an individual and the family values. If your parents don’t encourage their children to question everything then there is a real possibility they will become these society robots that go to work and just do what’s expected of them. Those kids will go through life as adults in the same way. They will not question anything in the sake of not disturbing their peaceful life. These children and later adults do not know how to deal with a tense situation, as they tend to most likely ignore it. Their family values maybe there but they were never encouraged to learn due to parents being too busy working and not having enough time to influence their children with the proper values.
After reading financial literacy books on my own during college, I realized how ridiculous it was that we live in a capitalistic society and yet we learn nothing of it in school. Personal finance should be a requirement in school not an elective.
What books would you recommend as far as financial literacy is concerned
we do not live in a capitalistic society
@@laisser-faire3423 Who exactly is 'we'? As far as I'm aware CZcams is pretty global. People who comment come from all walks of life and from different Countries so while you may not view your society as a Capitalist one, the original commenter does. In many ways Capitalism permeates most societies in one way or another.
@@Roxxelana Incorrect. The U.S. is the global hegemony in which every other nation on Earth’s currency value and productivity rests upon. And the U.S. is not true capitalism, it’s not designed as a meritocracy where people move up and gain wealth by working hard. The Nordic countries have much better functioning capitalism with much higher economic mobility than the U.S. and social safety nets and programs that benefit the nations’ prosperity and productivity. The U.S. is an oligarchy and its economic system is crony capitalism, and the disgusting liberals that run the nation exploit third world countries where workers are paid literal cents on the dollar, or are just straight-up slaves. Apple knowingly used slave labor for years, for example.
That because educators are low key anti- capitalist.
I highly recommend the book “The Millionaire Next Door.” Thomas Stanley studied 10 thousand millionaires. It shows that millionaires live in paid for houses and rarely buy luxury items.
Thank you, Sorelle! This is a very insightful and thought provoking video. I am a 39 years old continually trying to expand my horizons that create opportunity, abundance and inspiration, while still being authentic to myself. Your explanations have reminded me that consciences awareness is a key step in order to focus/realign the mind, prior to creating a roadmap for potential success.
I believe in my own experience that One must focus and “reset” before creating the plan that requires a set of new or existing skills, and then pave the way to take actionable steps - this is a process never too late to begin a new realization.
Lastly, some might already have the tools to proceed but it seems applicable that most will require stillness in our busy lives/days to step away from the overwhelming and purposefully built visual-mania that is distracting us and holding us back from our potential success.
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I lived my childhood on welfare and foodststamps. We were poor and I didn't know it as a child. As a teen I began to understand that we were poor and accepted what my mom, a single parent of 5, could do. But, blessed with being a super smart kid, I entered a summer enrichment program from 8th to 12th grade which removed me from my environment all summer long and planted me on a college campus where I not only took enrichment courses, but I got to see myself in a different situation. Professors and the summer college experience rewired my mind. I was hungry to graduate high school and college mostly because of this program. Two degrees later, I'm the first in my immediate family to graduate college and enjoy a 6 figure income. I'm 1 of 5 kids and the eldest. My sister, 4th of 5, was in a similar summer program. She too graduated from college and has an above average annual income. The remaining siblings are still stuck in the poverty cycle and mindset.
My belief: those enrichment programs reprogrammed 2 of 5 children living under the SAME house! We both broke the poverty cycle because we were removed from 8th grade to 12th grade from our environment long enough each summer to change our mentality about life and what we were capable of doing. There's absolutely something to what this lady is saying. I'm a product of this rewiring. 😌 ❤🙏🏾
The remaining siblings cannot see or think past where they are. It's difficult to even help them see they can be in a better situation. All the help and financial assistance we've given them over the years can't help what the mind can't see. Can't solve a personal lack of hunger for a better life. 😕 Very frustrating.
And, I've even seen similar exceedingly smart children in my classes who got better grades, drop out of college or do nothing more past high school and revert back to the poverty mindset they were raised in. A clue, smarts alone, isn't the leg up....seeing yourself somewhere more than where you are IS the advantage. The program gave us that opportunity
I was kicked out of 5 high schools and didn’t really care for school as whole. I always scored exceptionally high on standardized tests all while hardly paying attention. Today I am by far the most successful person I grew up with. I believe it has a lot to do with the fact that I knew from an early age I was never going to work for someone else and decided to start my first business at the age of 17.
What exactly did you get your degree in and what’s your job?
@@auroramothergoddess My bachelor's is in accounting. Master's in Business Administration (MBA). I'd rather not say what I do for a living... it's kind of a sensitive position.... however, it does deal with Tax and Accounting😊 I'm considering a second Masters in Biblical Studies and a PH.d in Theological studies. Waiting for my kiddos to grow up a bit. I've got one in college right not. Once she graduates I might start taking classes because I'll have some time before my 2nd goes to college.
@@markita.hardenhome you work for the government ?
@@auroramothergoddess I do.
In high school we had a bottom tier math class called Financial Recordkeeping. People in it were regarded as not "smart enough" for advanced algebra etc. Looking back the ideals taught were about interest, balancing finances, and other MORE useful skills than anyone else was receiving learning cosines and imaginary numbers. Oh the irony...
What is this electronic economy and stock if not imaginary number inside macine? People learning those math are making contribution through architecture while you only profit yourself. A parasite on society.
@@eavyeavy2864 Settle down.
This is true. I was in one of these classes for reasons that I don’t remember my senior year. Everyone would laugh at me and not sure why. I was getting knowledge that they did not have access too
They had personal finance as an elective at my high school and I don't understand why it wasn't required as part of the "career readiness" class we were all required to take. I think the idea is that, if you make enough money, you won't have to think about those things. But that's ridiculous because it's hard to avoid lifestyle inflation and save enough money if you don't understand how to budget.
At my high school we had a class like this but it was required to graduate. We also went over reading a bank statement, contracts, basic cooking, sewing. I used to joke they were preparing us to be poor.
Wow. When you said that your parents instilled the mindset of abundance into your life as a child I just about spilled out into tears. How powerful as a parent to do that. Very good.
I grew up in a lower-middle class family and my parents had an attitude about money - of lack. Tight budgeting and not much dreaming for better. When I got my first salaried job at 42k a year I was ECSTATIC. Now I am making in the 20s range as a fresh entrepreneur and very happy with my work. I do get those negative thoughts that tell me a higher salary is so far out of reach but I keep pushing forward because struggle will not be my story!!!
This is why I'm "happy" that I had a chaotic childhood: I didn't go to kindergarten, I have highly critical thinking parents and moved in several countries, I was to busy to adapt to listen to what society wanted us to be like. Today, I'm considered "weird" for not watching TV or listening to the radio, always wanting to have a lot of different sides of one story, doing researches and always questioning everything without going into paranoia. Unfortunately, people think today that what is said on TV is the absolute truth and that the government has no reason to "keep us poor", while it is their main goal.
Sounds like you were rich. I was in daycare at 13 weeks
Agreed !
So what do you do to pass the time?
@@kennethflores93 self educating. Critically thinking people who crave knowledge don’t typically waste time with TV on a regular basis. We’re all given the same amount of hours every day. If you’re using them productively, you don’t need to “pass time”.
*too busy
I'm not poor, I just don't have a lot of money. "Wealth..." says Epictetus, "consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Well said
Its a tricky word. I have a wealth of friends. I even have a wealth of assets (land). I don't have a wealth of disposable income, which ironically is helping save the world from the people who do.
Only a poor person would say that
@@aw5832 Yes and no.
@@roshi98 I'm just kidding around
I always believed we were programmed to be just workers. As a lover of history I learned schools were established to create factory workers, with the knowledge the school system has not changed I came to that conclusion. Curious what this channel has to offer.
I used to date someone who was so entrenched in the idea that she had to give back to her parents as soon as she graduated, forcing her to choose salary jobs over "riskier" endeavors for the guaranteed paycheck. I was lucky enough to have parents who, even though brought up in the same environment, never pressured me into giving back to them and so I was able to choose a career path that I actually loved rather than a degree that's "in demand".
As a teacher intern I got in trouble for trying to teach the kids more…they wanted them to stay at a certain level and claimed they weren’t capable of handling more. The kids were very attentive and cooperative when I tried to teach them more and they were unruly and had a low attention span when I taught them less.
Correct. I watched how quickly my nephew's learned to use a computer. By the time they were 3, they could easily make their way around a computer. Children are sponges. They will learn what you ALLOW them to learn.
I quit an after school program where the program manager criticized me for focusing more on the Bill of Rights than math
Had a teacher that told us that but didn't care , he believed as long as he could impact and teach as many kids as possible he was willing to risk his job to do so and most of us would ask alot of questions and were more attentive. Kids were more disruptive when teachers were just their for the job. I feel as a teacher you can make an impact in these kids lives - they'll remember you and your words will stay with them .
kids can tell when you're teaching them what matters
You are going to be an AWESOME teacher!
This is so true. I was a straight A student and my brother rarely even got Cs in class. I went to college and my brother didn’t. I am a wife and stay at home mom and we struggle. My brother had no kids/wife and he made his first million before 30. The difference between us is discipline and habits more than anything else. I followed the crowd and what I was told to do. He went his own way.
Sorry, but your education is not the only difference between your brother and you. And probably the difference in your educations is not the cause but an outcome of your main difference. Men and women, statistically speaking, have different psychological treats, women are more agreeable and prioritize security, men are more independent and take some pleasure from taking risks. It's not a coincidence that most of millionaires (not by inheritance) are men, and it's not a coincidence that most homeless are men too.
@@CogitoBcn That is down to social conditioning as well. Did you even watch the video?
@@alekz112 Of course I did. And no, is not social condition. It's just evolutionary psychology, game theory proves that the optimal strategy to pass your genes it's different for males and females, and it has been observed in many other sexual animals. Males must take risks to have a chance, females get better results playing safe.
@@CogitoBcn So you're telling me that women earn less because their biology makes it so? Do you have any peer-reviewed studies to back up that claim?
@@alekz112 Do you have a peer reviewed study to back up the claim that you are cognitively capable of processing the information in a peer reviewed study and accurately apply it?
My parents and me never talked a lot about finances, but they taught me one important concept: investing. Not specifically the stock market, but investing in yourself. As long as you invest a lot of money in yourself and your education, then the money is (mostly) well spend. It gave me the courage to take up a loan for my masters degree and continue on with my PhD.
Just hope you don't owe $300k for the journey though.
Sorelle, I started following you because of all your pictures from traveling abroad. Some of you and some of your travels, but what your content has changed into is invaluable. I take my hat off. I come here for your opinion and the guidance/perspective that so many channels pretend to have. Cheers to you
1. We are programmed at school to be workers 2:20
2. Belief programming 6:40
3. We are poor by design 10:15
4. What can you? 13:45
Thanks for the timestamps with subject headings.
Thankie
Learn the TRUTH
GET RID OF RELIGION !!!!!!!!!!!
there is no "other way"
your government is a religious cult
in the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE !!!!!!!!!!
Rich people are good with being thought of as evil because they know that the masses will stay away from being rich based on that mistaken belief.
@@MGAF688 Depends on what you did to get said money.
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Let us get more realistic.
We all can not run our own million-dollar-worth business.
A good economy works diversely with people filling roles from top to bottom.
Similar to the video but to be specific, what makes people poor is both human instinct and programming--people “can not wait”.
Put ANY human desire to this line: I can not wait to _________.
And that is it!!!
Unfortunately any human desire has some cost to it. Nothing is free.
Can not wait to buy first stuff. Then once have it, can not wait to upgrade/buy the next stuff.
Can not wait to marry, have kidsss and be the best parent by buying everything for the family.
And since the human instinct does not like to wait, everything we see is advertised as urgent one of a kind last deal!
Worse is instinct also makes us feel “left out” when we don’t have these things.
Imagine you working just a normal corporate job that you enjoy BUT not having so many mortages, monthly bills, kids and so many “next stuff” to buy. Even though you can’t afford a private jet, but have enough to enjoy your life and fewer worries makes you richer than most people.
Of course some people pull this out, but most don’t. So most are in heavy debt.
By that logic wouldn't there always have to be workers who build others dreams? This mindset is not about liberation for all, it's about liberating yourself, which just perpetuates the cycle, no? This is my understanding of it. I'd be happy to change my mind tbh
imagine disrespecting employees so much to think that being hired is shameful while LITERALLY no business would survive without hiring other people...
@@iyvnx I believe in general youtube platform is about liberating yourself and be narcissistic. There was a seed planted in everyone's head that you can be the most alpha person in the world and own it by holding the globe in your hands. Thanks to the universities and those mundane people on their mundane jobs with discipline, we got this far. By far I mean sitting at home on your ass next to computer having shelter, internet, food, water sewage system etc., giving nice platform for youtubers to bloom. If this video youtuber had no such environment around her, giving her place to think about financial freedom and success of being owner of the business(which is BS and doesn't guarantee success in any way) , she would have no time to think like that and she would be on the mundane job giving the World actual real value.
Also, "Make a plan, or be part of someone else's."
I'm so glad you started this video by talking about how both mindset and strategy are necessary for financial success, there are so many people who only focus on one and act like the other doesn't exist.
but it works so i see no problem, women use trite strategy to catch rich men and do nothing in life
I grew up in the mid '50s to the 70's. The meat of factory work in the US. Our family (extended three generations) left the farm and the men, ladies still stayed home, went to work in an auto plant. Suddenly we were wealthy. Well by our standards. We all actually had houses with hot and cold running water, a furnace and (get this) a bathroom actually IN the house. That was the early 60's. The auto plant was union work. Very good pay and fantastic benefits. Yes school and Sunday school drummed certain ideals in our head. Do good in school my. Graduate and get a good job. Marry your sweetheart. Have lots of babies. Repeat. Not a bad life actually. My family (I'm now the patriarch) of my generation are all well fixed and very comfortable. Our next generation all have advanced degrees. That was our promise to our father/grandfather that our kids would get to start farther up the hill than we did. We were taught the long game. I grew up surrounded by family that lived through the Great Depression. Frugality was, and still is, a way of life. Our family was actually very wealthy in the 1800's. Our patriarch and our wealth were destroyed during the US Civil War. It's been a long time recovering but it's now within reach.
During my entire time in the German school system I had the vague feeling that the main goal is to keep me stupid and make me follow senseless rules. Thank you for the video! You are awesome!
My entire time in the American school system made me feel and believe the same things. I felt my real education started the day I graduated from high school.
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Canada ...same
They teach you capitalism was always here even though it’s from 1600s(it replaced the efficiency of slavery to business owners by continuing to separate management from labor and dividing and conquering workers as opposed to days of tradesman owners being partners that negotiated wages or percentage of return
They teach you that school / business hours are when you work and the elite shops and uses your services, to this day the capital owners still can’t find a solution for when the laborers get to use business hours to do their shopping, That’s why daylight savings time is still employed
The key here is that they don’t want you to organize and own your labor or even worse, organize a worker owned cooperative where low skilled workers own everything and hire and fire managers and vote on production schedules where they choose profits and time off in the week to use other business services, Yugoslavia had an entire economy of only worker cooperatives from 1955-1991 and for a great majority of that time, the cia didn’t even economically sabotage it
yeah for me that was the same thing I believed. like the school system doesn't care about how to make a student be successful in life but to just be a small nobody so that you only can work in a 9-5 job for the rest of your days. I never learnt anything good from my school and I hated it. I always thought that school was holding me back to shit standards like only following my teachers' way of doing a thing and not a good way of doing something.
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Teacher here! You should read "What Schools Could Be" by Ted Dintersmith. He argues we need to totally revolutionize schools in the US to teach students to be creative problem-solvers, not drones. By focusing on self-directed studies and project-based learning, students can develop into independent thinkers and doers. We just have to get rid of constant standardized testing that keeps most public schools from innovating.
Interesting
That would undermine the government's need for obedient mindless drones.
I'm a teacher. We don't have a choice we are told what to teach.
Thank you for the recommendation, I've just ordered it :). I'm a teacher in Scotland, our new(ish) curriculum was designed to promote this kind of learning but as a secondary teacher only having classes a few periods a week and having to meet set outcomes, it's not always easy. Hopefully this book will give me inspiration.
so true
Great words! Looking forward to applying this with our kids in small ways.
We cut cable and TV 5 years ago and that was a huge shift for the better.
Not everyone is suited to be an entrepreneur. The world always needs worker bees. I say this as one who has started and operated two businesses and employed people in both. Retired now. Love your channel.
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Yep. I remember when I was a kid I would constantly ask for small jobs to earn money. I wanted to start a small business, but I needed my parents permission. My parents didn't support me. Whenever I had an opportunity, they pushed me into focusing on school ONLY and become a worker like everyone else. It really destroyed something inside of me.
Same
same
It's normal in the society before and today, people are susceptible to this "school first" way of life . I agree that early school for a Child is important. But, I believe parents should Support their kids on whatever dream they Hope to pursue.
Ditto
same
I think one of the most harmful things we are conditioned to believe is that if you try a path that is different than the classic "work for someone 40 hours a week and eventually retire" then you're doomed to fail. Some days you believe you can break out of that but there's always that voice that says "there's no way"
I completely agree! I think entrepreneurship and doing something 'different' would actually be a great fit for a lot more people, but we're often discouraged and made fearful of it because it's not taught as a 'traditional' approach.
Negativity and hopeles people. Stay away from them! They are cowards, you can have success without risking your neck, and its not like success is SUPER hard, you just have to really try your best.
my only fear is that i will have nothing to eat if i quit my 9-5
That's crazy how we are programmed to that extent.
@@BifolikaDesigns you can start working toward a business idea in your free time
I am 67. I learned a long time ago about compliance. You are taught something, but instead of creativity being aloud or encouraged, you are literally told how to do it. Math is a BIG example. We were always told to SHOW our work. If you got the right answer, but did not perform the work prescribed by the teacher, it was wrong. Thank you for a great vid.
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I was born and raised in the projects in Chicago IL during the 70's through the 90s. I was adopted and raised by two agrarian immigrants from the island of Puerto Rico. Although I had my first child in my teens, I graduated from high school and attained a college degree. If it were not for my high school English teacher, I would have never known how to balance a check book. Once I graduated from college, I left Chicago for good. I have lived like a nomad for the past twenty some aught years residing in the states of Louisiana, Washington, and California. In all my travels, I have never once run into someone from my old neighborhood. I knew, from a very young age, not to take someone else's word, or opinions, to heart. That only I could decide what was true for myself; also known as Relative Truth. My schoolteachers, and even some college professor, tried to put a damper on my insights but all failed. Even my adopted parents tried to trample me with their own fears but alas, to no avail. My point in sharing this with you is you hit a very valid note when you spoke of the poverty programming. It comes from everywhere and it is unrelenting. I fought, bled, sweated, and shed many tears to retain my critical thinking skills and my sanity as a whole. Thank you, thank you, and thank you for creating this video Sorelle. Namaste.
In a community college math class, our grades were partially affected by the grade of the people on our "team" in class. I asked the professor why, and he said that the school takes some direction from the requests of local large businesses on what they want their future employees to learn. In this case they wanted their future employees to learn team work, so they chose some classes to teach this in that most people would take. This was a calculus class, where the grade was important to my major, but I had to depend on other students to get A's, which they did not. Even if we studied together, I couldn't make them any smarter or punctual with their homework. The school administration didn't care if I accomplished what I deserved to accomplish, they only cared about their own bottom line, and kissing the rear ends of their benefactors. Local businesses shouldn't have this kind of influence on schools, but they do! Schools are not about helping the individual student's be successful, they are about helping the local businesses program their future human drones.
How then are you supposed to get a job if you don't have the skills necessary for it?
@@mrkostya008 Math class grades can be essential to getting into other math and science classes, and into a four year or graduate program. It's not fair to the student to have to rely on team mates to keep your grade up. There are other places to build team work skills, like work or sports, or volunteer programs. If a person needs team work skills for a job, they need to go the extra mile and volunteer or work. It's not hard. I did all three.
What you are saying here totally resonates with me . Public school for me was almost traumatic. I was aware at some point that I was just being trained to regurgitate information the way my teachers wanted it. And to fit into a box like you said. My mind is more creative and there was very little in the school system for me.
As someone with good grades, that’s the really the sad secret. I don’t have good grades because i know everything, i have good grades because i learned how to know what the teacher wants me to write
same. the experiences i had in school were awful.
History is possibly the most affected school subject in this sense. Go look for what historical details you cant publicly question without risking jail time or being labelled a conspiracy theorist. Make note also what sort of subjects you can easily find on this platform (CZcams) and what you cannot. Flat earth stuff appears to have to deal with very little censorship for example, and nobody has ever faced jailtime for espousing such beliefs. Galileo at the other end of that spectrum had different experinces in his time. What about matters that can put you behind bars or get you publicly ridiculed today? Questioning or denying Moon missions will not put you into any kind of legal jeopardy. But there are certain things that can.
"When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor"
-Paulo Freire
One of the things that turned me to communism was the simple question "cui bono", who benefits? If the logic of capitalism is such that the viciously self-interested come out on top, then those in power have a very good reason to try and keep you from resisting them.
I was never a good student. Why? Because I was bored. At home I read constantly. World Book Encyclopedia, books about sports, nature, art, etc. Nothing that was presented to me (even subjects I liked) was done in a way to interest me or further my knowledge. It was tests & that was it. Rote memorization. Mind you, I was born in 1960 when things were nowhere near as bad as now. The true test of intelligence is what you do/study after leaving school. When you are free to seek &, hopefully, learn the truth about yourself, others & all the inane manifest-destiny lies that make up our country's 'history'. If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
I said I needed to break out the matrix. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. Thank you! Saw you on Yes Theory and was so psyched to see a woman on their channel came straight to yours! You literally said everything that I’ve said privately so great confirmation I’m on the right path. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
ive spent so many years telling my parents this exact thing only to be told "you did bad in school because you were lazy", no i did bad in school because i was made to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day learning about things that dont matter, my break was time controlled, my lunch was time controlled, if i left early id be punished by detention, if i showed up late i was punished by detention and you all had to wear the exact same uniform of you'd get punished for not doing that either, not everyone is able to sit and be a perfect drone at school.
school was literally a fucking prison that would punish you for thinking outside the box.
now that i still hold this same mindset at work , im now told that "youre just being lazy" or "thats life, you have to work a job" when i challenge some ridiculous thing work want me to do. its just so bad right now because 99% of middle aged people who run all the companies now are completely brainwashed into that work work work mindset. its fucking insanity and needs to stop.
Wow! In 5th grade, I had an assignment to write what I would do with a million dollars. I wrote that I wouldn't want it because it goes to your head. You're definitely right about being taught to be poor.
Isn’t that crazy !! Makes me mad to think about how they’ve programmed us to stay poor . To even choose to stay Poor/low class
You know something, you are absolutely right.
I grew up with the phrase: 'Money will not bring you happiness!", A very common phrase for us Greeks...
These words were so deeply imprinted inside my head, inside my brain, that I almost hated it.
I had seen thousands times my parents fight over money... Gosh...I myself fought with my husband over money.... as a student, and because the money my parents give me ware peanuts, I had to go days without eating anything ... I arrived to firmly to the final conclusion that money and the lack of it is to by blame for all the evils fate!!!
Then one day I asked myself:
-All of us, at some point in our lives, will be unhappy. But what is preferable? What can be the least painful?
a)To be poor and unhappy?
OR
b) ....rich and unhappy?
Of course, I immediately came to my senses....SO THANK YOU!
True that phrase is the most fallacy i ever heard, if money doesn´t bring happiness, why do you need it to buy food, meds, pay rent, gifts to loved ones and etc. The bad attitude and mindset that people have with money doesn´t bring happiness for sure. My conclusion is a fallacy to keep idiocy floating around. Unless some people likes to feel happy eating grass.
This is a classic case of "Hearing, but not listening". The phrase doesn't mean "Money is going to make you unhappy", nor is it: "You can't be happy with money". The pharse means, very simply: "Materialistic goods \ money, isn't going to MAKE you happy", as in, you're depressed\unhappy, you hate whom you are, and everything in the world, geting money, isn't going to take this away.
Having social anxiety, having anorexia, these things don't dissapear, just becasue you get money. That is what it means. Now if you ARE happy with yourself, and you gain money, you'll remain happy ( and perhaps, might be happier, even ), but you're not going to make someone that's self loathing, into an happy person, by giving them wealth.
Look at the creator of Minecraft, Markus Persson. He's at the most unhappy he's ever been today, yet, he has "everything ( except his wife, that left him, for multiple reasons )". But again, looking at him shouldn't be a tale of; "Becoming rich will make you unhappy", it should be a tale that, becoming rich isn't going to make your inherent personality flaws, suddenly dissapear. Too many seem to be under that illusion, hence the phrase: "Money doesn't buy happyness", because it doesn't. Happyness comes from within.
@@SknCommonLisper Of course people are going to hear it in different ways, when its so vague. Its simplified a specific situation, and sounds more general than it is. It should be, "If you are unhappy with yourself, money won't make you happier about yourself", or "If you have clinical depression, money can't fix that other than paying for a therapist or treatment".
Oversimplifying it in order to make it more of a snappy catchphrase makes it lose it's meaning. It's a stupid saying for that reason.
If you have specific monetary reasons for your unhappiness, like for example, not being able to afford food, then money will make you happy. And when you said "Happiness comes from within", that is another over simplification. What if I slowly lower you into boiling water, is the "happiness within" going to shine, or are you going to instantly become very unhappy?
People that are happy or unhappy no matter the situation are ill. External events are meant to affect your emotions, in order to effect change. The sad truth is though that some people find themselves in a situation where external events make them unhappy, but they are trapped in that situation.
@@bst857 Agree and fair points.
My favorite quote response to that quote (which is well known here in the US as well): "Money doesn't buy happiness, but it buys one the freedom to not worry about money."
Thank you for saying this! I never put it together that I'm poor because I subconsciously hate money. Definitely going to spend my savings on courses just like you did.
You're consciously hating money, broke boy 💸
The title reminds immediately that most of us, starting even back in elementary school, are trained by teachers and parents to be employees. Not investors, not enterpreneurs, not execs. A very old problem.
I’ve always thought that I was good at “being at school “. Like even if I wasn’t great at some subjects, I was still being “a good girl”. Loved the discipline, creative boundaries, being told what to do and having a measurable outcomes. Even in the uni. Now being in the real world and realizing that it’s all just biting me in the bottom.
Now I’m in a dissonance between who I want to be and who I was with all the patterns and perceptions. Thank you for shedding light on this and always making me stop and think after watching your videos.
Awareness and acceptance is the first step to taking your power back, I am so proud of you. :)
Yo I find so much of myself in this. Good luck to us figuring it out in ”the real life”!
Wonderful insights!! You know that you thrive on boundaries and order 🙂.
So, you need to set your own boundaries and create your own order - but do it in away that creates habits or guides that direct you where you wish to go...
It's very simple. But not easy. Good luck!
For real.
Having or expecting "measurable outcomes" is not a bad thing. The whole of science is based on that concept. Maybe you need a new measure.
You know what's awesome and gives me some hope for the future: the fact that more and more people are becoming aware of this system and how it was designed to keep certain people in power and the rest of us to be stuck in a false sense of powerlessness. This is a common fact now and I hope our entire society informs themselves of how they can rise financially without dependence on abusive corrupt systems.
What is done in schools is tragic. I worked as a consultant to schools for security. The graduation rate in my state is 50%. The native schools famous for their incarceration and abuse in the past have a 30 % graduation rate. You can't be sure of the standards of performance. I should have never graduated from Highschool. The school I went to was just bad. Most teachers were losers. Some were good but most were not. I can remmember three out of all the teachers who helped me. If you can't remember your teachers name they did nothing for you. That is the test.
Large class sizes and standardized curriculms- Now CRT destroy learning. Schools are dangerous and negligent. School Law is a fiasco by politicians. School administrations are strangeled by budget limitations, political correctness and liability fears. Most schools routinely violate the many levels of law. It is sick. NO one should give their childern in the formative years of their lives to the government for indoctrination and brain washing. Home school is best. Kids do expotentially better. All studies show it.
Fantastic message, most appreciated:) Born and raised in a Welsh coal mining town, raised by a remarkable woman & very educated grandmother, but I swear, I was in college the first time I heard the word entrepreneur! Thanks for the timely reminder :)
This video really speaks to me for two reasons. One I've been raised in that kind of mindset that money was evil and rich people are selfish etc. All my childhood I felt like a financial burden for my parents because they would complain about not having money a lot. I mean they could barely afford rent, food and bills and now more than ever I understand what kind of pressure and stress it causes you.
The second point that really strikes me is the educational system that's design to keep people poor. I've been lucky to develop a critical mind thanks to my mum being a bit of a rebel. I particularly felt the pressure to become a good complacent little soldier when I went to uni for a semester before I had to stop for personal reason, but I hated the fact that they were trying to do that, and that nobody else in my class seemed to be able to feel it. It almost felt like being brain washed. Maybe I was more aware of it because I had left the school system at the age of 15, which I think helped further develop my critical thinking, through the hardship of everyday life as well as constantly overthinking and questioning everything.
Now I'm 30 and I'm in a constant financial struggle. I have made many mistakes that brought me here but I genuinely, for the moment, can't imagine earning money. As if I did not deserve to be in a good place financially. There's the context of the upbringing but not only. I have many psychological block that also prevents me from being successful. However, I think I'm going in the right direction because the first step to healing is awareness and I'm currently doing everything I can to get better.
Sorry for talking about myself so much but just wanted to share my personal experience from what you talked about in the video.
Thanks for the great content.
I'm 68. I was broke for all my youth and got divorced in my 40s and had to start all over. You will be fine. It takes a little time. You are thinking about how to break the mold and that is a big step in the right direction. Invest. Have your money work for you and not the other way around. You will see that I am right one day when you have a 1m net worth.
I relate to you A LOT. My parents were under that stress too when they got bankrupt and we were living poor barely having enough money to pay for bills and eventually my dad took me and my brother to his gym for Christmas this is when I was 8 because he got evicted from his apartment, he was a boxer and the look at my dads face look horrifying to look at. Being poor sucks, and people stigmatize being stupid rich means evil and such, I’m glad you made that decision to leave school because I just graduated and didn’t feel like I learned a single thing from school.
I hope everything works out for you Charlotte!!
I noticed I had a little more money the older I got. I stopped buying stuff with loans , didn’t eat out as much , stayed home a lot ( witch I like ) The world will suck up the little amount you make. There is plenty to do at home or apartment etc. slow down.
I grew up poorer than any person I know of. In a cabin in the woods with no electricity. My parents were always discussing the lack of money, lived paycheck to paycheck, but had plenty of booze to drink each week. They also didn't take care of anything. So many assets were left outside, like our lawnmowers, shovels, and chainsaws. I went to college despite pressure from my grandparents not too and "gain all that debt". Now that I'm middle class, I truly believe being middle class is much harder than being poor. When I was poor, there was an excuse for everything. Now that I'm middle class, I take care of everything, all the time, and protect my assets. When I was a kid, that mostly junk lawnmower was left outside and lasted a few months, then we needed another. Now that I'm middle class, I still got a second hand lawnmower from the neighbors, put it under cover, change the oil regularly, etc. and it's lasted for years. Same with a shovel. Yeah it's "cheap", but I no longer have to buy one every year. So many items are like this. When I was poor we bought the same stuff over and over, all because of laziness. When you don't have much money, you can supplement with sweat equity... I rarely see the poor doing this... and I don't see the poor doing it, because the people that build these habits will no longer be poor. It doesn't matter what job you have.. you can take care of your stuff and make it last. I also now understand the difference between needs and wants, which is another trap poor people fall into. I can now afford a lot more 'toys', but choose not too, unless I can pay cash, in lieu of financing. The poor should not be financing ATVs, boats, campers, etc. etc., but they do everyday... often in lieu of critical bills like a mortgage or other bills. Personal responsibility matters.
True. We teach the kids how to be employees, and not employers.
The truth is that we teach what we know and what we are. I can’t figure out how so many people in the US manage to hate so many others and still claim to be Christian. Is that also programming?
You Can't be an Employer if you Don't have Employees.
Right
@@Patriot1789 makes sense to me. And unfortunately the most outspoken Christians I know are also the least compassionate people I know. 😕
The first thing they teach you at school, before you even enter the building, is get how to get in line.
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing truth and you have a great smile! I knew nothing about finances, saving, taxes, mortgages, or anything until I was like 25 years old and needing to figure out the finances with my new wife at the time. Once I began learning about how to handle money, my wife and I stopped our debt mentality and honestly we are kind of stuck in my opinion and I've been thinking about it. The only debt we have is a mortgage and we have money saved. With prices increasing over the last few years I realize I don't feel financially free even though we are better off than statistically about 78% of people. However, the older I get, the more I am thinking that I would like to do easier work not tied to a regular job that sucks the life out of me and have plenty of money left over doing something I love so that also my wife can take care of the kids full time as well. So I am thinking and praying about what I can do to change. I think the key is not following the crowd like you said. It can make you feel good, but sometimes alone lol!
George Carlins final stand up act, writ large… “They call it the American dream, cause you gotta be asleep to believe it”
Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Great comedian. The most hilarious things are the truth
Mr Carlin would have a field day with the current shenanigans!
RIP George.
I saw a comment recommending the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," so looked it up and the audio book is free on CZcams. 10 minutes in there's a quote, "Money is one form of power, but what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone doesn't work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works so they spend their lives working for money." ... the words "BUILDING wealth" stick out to me as a reminder that it does not happen overnight, and its okay to start wherever you are. About to start my journey of building wealth through financial education. Thanks Sorelle for opening the conversation
Lol the first commercial that popped up is one from Robert Kawasaki. I think I'm misspelling his last name
100 agree.
I loved the book, sooo many lightbulbs went of when I heard it.
Consistency and repetition are the keys to success.
The difference between a master and a student is that the Master failed 1,000 times whereas the student doesn’t even want to fail.
A lot of people are afraid of failure. If you can push past failure again and again you can achieve success.
Its the law of rhythm.
That book and The Millionaire Next Door.
I recall at school the head teacher telling us to get the daft idea out of our head 'that if you work hard, you will become a success in life'. He hated Thatcher & this rhetoric and told us that this only applied to the middle classes because they have the contacts., while the working class simply needed to know their station in life.
Lesson I learned in my life that in order to success one must be prepared to suffer and always be ready anytime...
You can escape the poor mindset even without paying a cent. On torentsites you can find free books for kindle, free courses and so on. Coming from an ex communist very poor country, this was my only option, but it changed my life. Ten years ago I was spending all my salary (200 euro/dollars) and was always in debt. I needed a few years of books and videos to change my mindset then another 3-4 years to save a few thousand euros to be able to start a business. Now I make more than 50.000 euro in profit per year, which is huge here in eastern europe. So yes, mindset is very important and you need to start with this, but as Sorelle says, you also need skills. I would say you also need DISCIPLINE and DETERMINATION. If it can be done from a poor eastern european (ex communist) country, it can be done from any capitalist country.
that is awesome. Keep hustling. you made it because of YOU. like you said, determination.
What books do you recommend for a start?
@@TheJaniable Begin with Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Then Richest Man in Babylon. Afterwards Four Hour Work Week. All can be found on this platform as audiobooks.
This is so true, kids today come out of high school with all the skills needed to be a door greater at Walmart
Exactly! They look at cursive writing and don't know wtf it is! 🤦🏾♀️
Reminds me of one of the crazier reject stories:
How much is half a kilo?
A: 5000g (written down answer!)
Uhm, maybe too many zeros?
A: no
Sure?
A: yes
Okay, we won't call you.
And i live in a non america country, so metric is normal. That was good "the fuck?" moment of our HR guy. I regularly get the "best off"s. This one stuck.
Well the actual number 1 is german business law specific.
Breaks down to:
The company type needs to be in the legal name (iE "limited" and the like, so that's at the very least convention internationally).
Someone who applied to a management position gave a *very* layman answer to to what the abbreviation in the name of the company they applied to means. The answer was so bad it implied heavily they did not even know about the aforementioned fact. That's like a farmer telling you that an "acre" is what teenagers get on their face.
I found that out because my boss was very visible upset about that after the interview. But i get that, stuff like that still shocks me regularly.
I suppose you finished with top marks, Greeter not Greater.
well, they can also stock the shelves and drive a fork lift.
@@adrienneabraham4856 I'm not a kid but I don't think they are all like that, come on. Haha! Also, your second sentence didn't need an exclamation mark since it's not an imperative sentence. Sorry if my English is bad. This is not my first language.
Great explantions about manipulation in the education. I live in Canada and I had the chance to be educated in private institutions where I learned how to think and discriminate between things after which I also became a teacher.
All the same, I was also brought in a puritannical catholic mentality where money was taboo and as such, I was never tought how to use it, handle it and mosltly make it. Relsult, at 77years of age, I am a sharp critical thinker but I have remained financially challenged all my life. It' s great that you educate younger people to awaken to their real possibilities.
P.S. I put the playback at 75% and, not only does it make you sound like a real person but it gives me enough time to understand what you are talking about. Thank you.
Hearing all the stories about people, that just won a lot of money in some lottery and then lost everything in few months - you are right. We are programmed to be poor
The section about 'being programmed to be workers' has a strong undercurrent of classism to me, especially when emphasising over and over that employees are drones/meat machines and that workers are mindless as a class. If I snapped my fingers and suddenly everyone was an entrepreneur/ business owner, and no one was an employee, then realistically who would be a worker for those businesses? Even the fact that people are making money on CZcams talking about breaking free functions off of ad revenue that is aimed at consumption, primarily consumption by... yeah... middle class workers. I get that so many of these type of channels are meant to be inspirational, preach freedom, breaking out of the molds of society, etc., but I also find much of that messaging to be inherently classist. This channel is still, fundamentally, supporting the current system of capitalism and preaching that a select few can live on the blissful fringes of this system and lord it over those 'programmed' to be 'stuck'. I don't believe the way to find freedom is to just pull yourself to the top of the capitalist heap, be self-employed, and then crow about enlightenment while finger wagging about the middle class 'wage workers' who 'just don't get it'. This feels a bit like Horatio Alger bootstraps for a new generation, but calling it enlightenment. Fundamentally, as another commenter mentioned, this simply isn't scalable and relies on an inevitable 'trapped/worker/drone' class to continue to be 'programmed to be poor' as you say. You preach about the problem but your solution seems to just be to be sure to be one of the ones that scramble to the top and enjoy the benefits while everyone else stays stuck so the system keeps running and allows you to benefit. Seems like a pretty fatal flaw in the philosophy...
Well there’s always going to be plenty of low IQ people to be worker bees as the low IQ actually reproduce MORE, and since the industrial revolution, most are able to live relatively long lives. So you really should consider mate selection as it’s nolonger solely darwinian based. On the other side you’re only going to have so many higher IQ people and simply creative or motivated types to actually take responsibility and risk to start their own gig, as both require longterm styles of thinking.
Classist perhaps, but the spirit of the video is more of an implication on the school system than society itself
The school system hasn’t evolved to allow for any freedom or creativity but instead this idea of conformity and risk aversion. It’s also terribly inefficient and now sexist as it makes life hell for boys, which, is why boys are now trying to become girls just to feel accepted within the group….
Fast forward years later - women whining “where are all the REAL men?!”
Well, taking what you wrote into consideration, what is the better way? An entire systemic overhaul? Recognizing how the system sorts each of us out into the aforementioned categories is already a good start. If you can't break the wheel then adjusting where you fit in the system as the wheel turns is a better strategy. I look at it as the human condition.
We have never lived in a time where everyone was just doing their own thing and there were no workers because of it. On the contrary, mayority of people have been poor, unemployed or working for someone else. Those who don't manage to get to a better position will in the future be substitute by machines.
The reality is that living in the middle class in America is still better than living on any other country in the planet. Aside from maybe Nordic countries that are 99% 👱👱♀️ with no 👦🏿 people. The earth is never going to be perfect
A lot of people that don’t have God and Jesus, want to believe that they can make earth a paradise on earth. But the only paradise exists in heaven with Jesus. God literally makes it physically impossible for the earth to be perfection. It’s never going to happen
She's so right. In my 10 years of working on financial freedom, I noticed there's a universal mindset and a shared knowledge amongst people that "got out." She's essentially laying it all down in this video.
It’s mathematically impossible to get everybody rich no matter how many times you listen to all these guru, that’s Capitalism that’s the truth.
did you make it my man?
@@TIWofficial It is a fact man!
@@vidalskyociosen3326 Yeah people have the wrong idea, you "getting out" of the system is not a solution since the majority will always be part of it. The only way to cause true change is for the system to fundamentally change (probably with the help of automation, AGI, etc...)
@@Danuxsy or Implement " The Resource Based Economy " by Jacque Fresco, that's one of humanities hope.
I loved that video. I'm so stuck I can't go ahead, even though I desperately want to get free from this trap. Thank you for your content...it's really important to spread it more widely!!!
Little house on the prairie is a good example. The town built a school house, hired a teacher and sent their #1 son or daughter there to get education hoping that they would bring it home and improve the families life by mean of it.
This came on in my feed unintentionally. The most encouraging and realistic thing I heard all week
Nothing shows up in your feed unintentionally. ;)
“Turn off the freakin’ TV!”
I loved that line. Kind of summed it all up there.
I was programmed to work by my Mother! Of course she was from the generation of the great depression. I’m glad she pushed us & it was beneficial in the workforce.
Good day @Sorelle, I am happy that you are also speaking openly about this. I am currently embarking on a mission to start working with schools to give children the needed mindset shift so that they too can realise that they too can achieve all they want. I value your inputs that you've shared with us here, I'm subscribed for more. "None of us are as smart as all of us." - Ken Blanchard
The education system is luckily changing in some countries. In Estonia, we’ve had business skills taught in schools for years now and there’s a national competition for student companies. The students have to come up with a unique product and a big fair is organised where they sell their stuff. It’s great! :) You can also take a business course at any university, no matter what you’re studying. So things have been improving 😊
At our school, we have business class!
Lmfao, in my school in Bosnia, we have 6-7 hours of work with one 10 minute "lunch" break
@@bassman3235 Nema promjena za nas, nazalost
The devil is in the details. I have held blameless the educator who had me stay back a grade at the age of seven (US school). Though the act destroyed my self esteem and had me imprint on abject failure....I believed that, at the time, my best interests must have been considered. With all social contacts severed, and no extra support offered, (think the education system in the early 1950's) the bright and gregarious young boy I was... morphed into a withdrawn and conflicted one. An early phase of rebellion was tamped down with endless punishment homework. I eventually just shriveled up, turned eighteen, and entered the world a depressed, sad, and lost pliable drone. Millions (billions?) like me, pressed into the service of the controlling few. A complete and utter squandering of the bright promise of humanity. Will the general public ever awaken and react? What will they do?
Most of this is a social problem, not a system problem. The point you made about how you look at money based on your upbringing is probably the best point you have here. There's so many kids at college right now that look at money like it's the devil, hate capitalism, hate financing and wish that things were just per some monthly quota and not needing management. Tells you a lot about their parents and raising. But that's not the systems fault, that's the parents fault. And the system itself is mostly a simplified reflection of social wants.
The core thing people need to learn about financing is that it's by far the best metric we have to display how well someone manages their time and skills. If you're financially struggling, you need to look at what you're mismanaging.
Well Sorelle, i listened to the whole video and I miss a view important things. But before I go forward i have to say that a lot of rich rich billionaires or Millionairs are very empty people. Nothing seems to satisfied no more and they are in to weird stuff. That’s why maybe they be looked at as living on a darker side. Not all of them to make myself clear.
The important things I am missing is what you should have in the first place. Feeling good and comfortable with your self. Know how to enjoy yourself, what makes you feel happy instead of or before you are going for the BIG money. I think it is more important to know- also if you think a lot of people will stay poor, how to accept your life and feel satisfaction in the things you can do. To stay healthy, or create more fun or to discover your potentials you have in you. That sort of activations to take action on. Stop smoking, choose the right options, healthy choices, have love and joy with your self and others. Bring this to the next step of creation when your fundament is ready for take off and start create something you would love to do. Then money can crow on you and you learn how to keep it. When I look at you you already had those ingredients. And a fine up bringing. You where positive about yourself I believe already. Abundance doesn’t have to do with money only. It is how your mindset is about what you believe you are capable of and the enthusiasm and joy to find out how many potential you have. This kind of Abundance. Eager to learn, knowing you may fail in order to learn. Not programming to becoming a Millionaire but programming to become a super human being in what kind of state you will be with or with out money, you know what you have is enough. It doesn’t make you sad. You are also spiritual rich to overcome it all🤗❤️ to gaine big money only should not be your drive. Abundance for who you are and want to become looks to me a worthy and valuable path to go on to.🤔❤️
The test I've used on myself since I was 18 - at any point in time, I ask myself, "Am I producing or consuming right now?"
I played a lot of video games at that time. I decided they weren't worth my time - if anything, I'd rather program games. So I studied Computer Science.
10 years later, I don't even have a computer that can run most modern video games, which keeps me from getting too distracted from my actual life goals. My job involves some video game skills, but actually solves real life problems for real people instead of just entertaining (or worse, addicting) them - I realized that was one of my deeper goals as well.
If you want to reprogram yourself and actually find out what your goals are, I highly suggest listening to Jordan Peterson, especially about his writing courses (self authoring). Journaling is a great way to reorient yourself. If you can't write, you can't think.
Good job, so you're spending the only life you have being uptight about having some fun. I wouldnt be so proud of it :)
I recognize myself in every word. My parents were programmed to be poor and still push that boxed vision on me. It's hard to reshape your mindset and actually do something worthy.
My mom’s family taught me to be poor with purchases from rent to own and other revolving debt. I made excellent money when I was a young man and my mom s family talked me into buying stuff all on credit. I follow Dave Ramsey now and and digging myself out of $100k of student debt.
When I went back to school to get new skills EVERY class kept saying "your employer will want" I was stunned and learn it is the large corporations that tell the schools what classes to offer and what to teach the drones.
When you sell a life saving drug and raise the price 700% just cuz you can, there's your rich villain.
Engrish
The spiiiice
True, the rich villains are not difficult to find, but not every rich person is villainous; and certainly not every poor person is virtuous. Seperating virtue from wealth allows one to be more clear sighted
@@Tarq666 That is exactly what Jonas Salk did! Salk was immediately hailed as a "miracle worker" when the vaccine's success was first made public in April 1955, and chose to not patent the vaccine or seek any profit from it in order to maximize its global distribution.
Pharma Bro Martin 🤣
I think the definition of "poor" needs to be up front, as many will have a very different definition. Not being a millionaire does not mean being poor, and having lots of money and physical wealth does not mean you are rich or successful.
There is good advice in here, but the audience is clearly people who want to have lots of cash so they can forget all the advice and buy all the stuff they're being sold.
Of course....given the links, it's clear that this really isn't that different. Selling you a dream rather than selling you a toaster.
Well said.
@ Right, so consider what services/how much time you are going to trade to receive all this money. The world isn’t going to hand it to you. All those experiences you refer to, someone must do the work of flying the plane, keeping the hotel room clean, maintaining the cities you want to visit etc. Do you think their time spent doing such things is not valuable?
"LOl lets change the meaning of words hurhur"
Her advice is basically the old "‘Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps’" shit that privilege people have been peddling forever. She completely ignores the benefits that being an attractive white female gives to her.
Very good insights in being optimistic rather than being pessimistic. I remember my father brought home always negative ideas, that was broadcasted to him from his workplace, and applied to us. Later, I worked at a similar facility and heard the same negative broadcasts. One example is when you had accomplished something good at your workplace, your supervisor discouraged or made a negative comment of your accomplishment. I realized then that it was gimmicks to foil yourself to ruin. Presently, I build things at home that are useful and needful. Moreover, you have to reassure your client or customers, and even prove that your product works, since some of these customers grew up and heard similar negative rhetoric from their parents and/or from their workplaces.
I understand what you mean, and I struggle seeing myself succeed against large businesses. I'm fascinated by aviation and would love to design planes and sell them. The problem is companies like Cessna, Boeing, Cirrus, and Lockheed Martin, make it seem impossible to compete in any area of aerospace. Everything from private to commercial to military aviation is controlled by very few, very large companies that weild so much power. Sometimes I wish I was around in the 1920's and 1930's so I could get my foot in the door. Before anyone was powerful enough to shut me out. For now I see my best hope in joining them and working for them, just to have my name attached to these marvels of engineering.
2 books that talk about this.
1 Secrets of a millionaire Mind
2 Psychology of Sales
Also Happy Money by Ken Honda
Thank you for sharing! 😃
I resent these types of books. Because most of these self help gurus are not genuine business creators. They make money by telling people how to make money by selling their books etc about making money. in other words it feels like a con or a pyrimid scheme.
One of the biggest problems becoming rich is, when you get there, nothing changes, except realizing that what you thought it could buy, it cannot. If your primary goal is money, you have already lost the game. Money needs be a by-product, not the goal.
In the album No Pressure by the rapper Logic, he discusses that specifically, talking about how money and fame brought him more suffering and problems rather than happiness, and he’s retired from the mainstream and now lives with his wife and baby and makes awesome underground mixtapes instead of competing in the music industry and trying to top charts. He no longer makes money from his latest albums because of all the samples on them that he has to pay to clear.
@@hadookin47 Exactly right. If your art depends on someones else it's doomed. May make the money, but the pressure from the group, the label, the TEAM etc. destroys any joy. "Too many cooks, spoil the broth."
Money (real money), property, and other material things are only a portion of wealth. Wealth also includes the things that are not material: honour, love of others, being loved by others, self-respect, etc. are just as important, or even more so.
@@jayecurry1369 Absolutely right. Unfortunately we look at the word "wealth" as being purely material in general and in terms of dollars/possessions in particular.
However, I have learned that words as abstractions need to be fleshed out and understood for more than they appear at first glance, they can have, and do have multiple meanings.
Definition of wealth: 'an abundance of valuable possessions or money.' but if one digs a little deeper: 'a plentiful supply of a particular desirable thing.' Now that desire may not be money only. It, as you say, can include: honor, self respect and generosity.
@@fromthepeanutgallery1084 You are absolutely right 2. I often hear Democrats referring to high income people as being the wealthiest, even thought those high income people are often materially poor owing to wasting their money rather than investing it, like many football player. An amazing number of them file for bankruptcy within 10 years after retiring from earning multi-millions a year while playing.
I used to watch your photo vlogs all the time. This was such a nice treat to see you've branched into educating in other areas. You're brilliant at it!
It's important to point out that society's programming is not capitalism. China does this, North Korea does it, Russia does it. It's not capitalism. Americans blame capitalism for being in a society.
"Start with the free stuff... Knowledge is power... Wisdom is the execution of knowledge." It is such a wise decision to take action on the free advice given through this free platform. All I have to pay is $Attention.00
It has to register first.
I'm so broke i can't pay attention how do I fix this
@@phenomenalmusic5034 I have found discipline is key. Developing good spending and saving habits. Budgets help and knock out debt quickly
Thank you 🥰
As a person with a Masters Degree I do think schools are important. Literacy and numeracy are essential for success and autonomy. University did improve my reading and writing skills. Practice does make perfect. Many people only practice with the pressure of a teacher. Online learning does give us incredible access to the best minds, but many people actually lack motivation without a real life teacher of some sort.
I don't think she was knocking education, just the current institution. Once you get to the university level I think there is critical thinking and value, which is why many students do poorly their first year since they are not used to that level of rigor. I left my career as a teacher because I didn't agree with how we were institutionalizing our kids and I hated being part of that system.
You can use the knowledge ,if your mind is open, to creating an advantage via education….or you are programmed to fit the worker mould.
Also as a person with a masters degree in the creative arts, I believe school has more disadvantages than advantages. I agree that literacy and numeracy are important. But for day to day lives our numeracy doesn’t go much further than elementary school, the rest just isn’t practical to us unless we want to be a mathematician or use it in any scientific field.
Also the saying “practice makes perfect” is utterly wrong. Improper practice will not make perfect, the saying should be “perfect practice makes perfect” but then again, is it possible to be perfect?
Secondary school should be for life skills as sorelle mentioned, finances, first aid, social skills etc.
Not only is the modern schooling system programming people poor, it’s encouraging homelessness and mental health issues. I’m in the UK, they send you out for 2 weeks worth of work experience at 15/16 years old over the course of 5 years.
That’s not good enough, most leave school with an unclear mindset and work mundane jobs they hate and apply for dead end jobs for the next 10/20 years of your life. Hmmm yes school has really set you up for life there hasn’t it.
Learn to look after yourself first. That is what life should be about. Cook good food, go out and socialise, learn practical life skills, surround yourself with successful people and much more.
We’re humans, we need social interaction, too many teachers that have been teaching for long periods of time become withdrawn, negative and hateful and cannot be bothered with kids anymore. I know because I am a teacher myself.
The more we educate about life the clearer a vision you leave school with, school is not life. It’s such a small proportion of it. Do good in school by all means. But remember, we’re learning what our parents, grand parents, great grand parents Learned, teaching the same thing through the generations, but yet they don’t remember half of it and can’t teach it to us themselves when they are our family, what does that tell you?
It’s not a sufficient system.
Just like everything else, it all depends on various things. School is good for professions like medicine, law, etc not because you get the best education there, but for credibility and having a license to practice. Many other fields too, but I'll just use those as an example. However, MANY MANY fields do not need one to go to university. Not only is it a waste of time, but money on a large scale too. I am a Computer Scientist and by the time I graduated I had basically taught myself almost everything using online resources. For me and many others in my field, school was a huge waste of time and money. The most fvcked up part is that we were taught outdated nonsense and this wasn't even unique to my school. It just wasn't worth it.
As far as literacy in multiple disciplines is concerned that varies with each person. Some people are very good at very young ages, reason better than most adults and are quite imaginative.
I'd argue that today, for most fields there are many online free resources that are exponentially better than university.
You don't have to go through a university to be good at anything. All education institutions are to program people to think in a particular way. Right is wrong and wrong is right is being taught to our children. Ex. Pronouns, common core, sexual identities, racial ideations, and on and on
Thankyou Sorelle. It’s always amazing to hear your wealth of knowledge shared here and encourages me that I’m on my way to the goal.
I do eft tapping a lot to transform poverty consciousness which often is passed down ancestrally through our family… generations of poverty consciousness holding most people back and it is a real thing that most people don’t want to acknowledge.
I’ve been attacked online for attempting to. Their cynicism and skepticism about Law of Attraction etc won’t allow them to look at any of this and it’s a real shame but everyone is where they are at. Can’t change them
In my experience, not earning much and having an aversion to buying on credit has made it simple for me to refrain from buying the latest and greatest products. Thinking for myself helps, too.
I've heard a lot of this when I was a kid in a poor family. Money doesn't make you happy. I grew up thinking that if you had anything good, then something bad will happen to you, but you could have as much bad stuff without anything good. It took a long time to feel like I could have something awesome or have awesome stuff happen to me without paying a huge price.
I used to feel this way until I accomplished big things and it just lead to more big things. Action is one of the best ways to kill limiting beliefs
I started to cut out most negative news and stuff I watch and listen too and it really has made a difference in my mind set ❤.
Oh, I went to school in Germany, how our school was not build for modern economy was always a big topic!
Even though it improved, and we have a lot of critical thinking subjects, the lack of actual improvement of the school system is crazy
Sorelle and Leon, can your organization help those affected by a business's failure? I started a retail business with a shoestring budget. In spades, I had the motivation - and ignorance, NOT know what I was getting myself into - lol. I spent seven days a week and up to ten hours a day working it - I loved holding the reigns. What I did not love was what I put my wife and kids through, me not being there for them as much as they wanted me to be. Things went south when I acquired a business partner and finally took a vacation (after four years!) Long story short, when I returned, my new business partner ignorantly sabotaged my efforts, and the store could not recover from it. (Well, I thought I could recover, but I was starting all over, and my wife had enough, threatening divorce papers.) This really affected me so much that I could not get back on that horse (but, of course, I wanted to.) After that, I read all the material I could find at the time to figure out what I did wrong. I was the typical scenario of failure in those readings. My wife and I are empty nesters now, and I would like to start again, but I feel what I was passionate about is no longer relevant. I KNOW BUSINESS IS THE ANSWER - believe me, I know it - but you have to have an absolute LOVE in what you are doing, or you will grow to hate it - if there is any way you can really address this for me I would really appreciate it. Thank you!
49 and just a few years ago I went back to school to float. I changed my mind then and will no longer work for any one else. I have been teaching my children as well as a single mom the same things you are teaching here. My kids are going to thrive and not just survive in this system. I decided 2 years ago to start a non profit to teach single moms just what you are teaching here. Im glad I found you. Now Im going to learn all I can from you as well as a few others to change our lives. THANK YOU.
i grew up poor, my parents grew up poor, my grandparents grew up poor, my whole family lineage were birthed and died in poverty. But that will not be me.
I remember school. We evolved from fish. Then apes. I got out of school and was liberal. Didn't know why right away. It was school. Listened to Rush one day. He challenged me to challenge my beliefs. Had a business for ten years. It was great!