You've Been TRAINED TO BE BROKE | "I Did This and Got Rich!" - Kim Kiyosaki

so I think in the school system they don't want us to learn about money because they just want to pump out good employees that do what they're told I mean if you look at school it's opposite of what it takes to be successful in real life don't make a mistake do as you're told take tests by yourself don't cooperate do it by yourself do it on your own and the last thing was oh there's only one right answer no there's tons of answers to a problem so you come out of school scared to death of

making a mistake you do everything on your own you don't cooperate there's no Synergy there's no brainstorming and there's only one right answer everybody wants to get the right answer there's no one right answer so I think people come out of school paralyzed I think the school system is criminal in that it kills a child's spirit of learning you know some a child goes into school all excited about yeah I'm going to learn and it's going to be great and then the teacher says sit down and shut up don't talk we don't care what you're

interested in did anybody in school ever ask you did a teacher ever ask you Brian what are you interested in I never did I never did so they just teach you what they want to teach you instead of finding out what the child is interested in and teaching to that so I think I think Kids come out of school scared to death of making a mistake they come out paralyzed they don't know what they want to do because they're they're spirit and their creativity has been crushed inside of them so you almost have to do

a whole reprogramming once you get out of school so you can find so you can find out what what it is that that excites you what it is that that where your passion is when Robert and I had our first date back in 1984 yes in Hawaii okay he said what do you want to do with your life I had been fired twice from the same job out of college twice on the same job yep they fired me and they hired me back and they fired me again and I knew I wanted my own business

so on our first date he said what do you want to do with your life and I said I want my own business but I don't know anything about entrepreneurship but I've never been around entrepreneurs and Robert said well I've started several businesses and all my friends are entrepreneurs I'm like great perfect so two months later I started my first business the funniest thought I had coming from an employee was oh now my time is my time I'll do it whenever I want and I'll have all this free time and it's going to be on

my schedule wrong no you work 24 7. I had no free time and I'm like okay so that was a myth I had but that was my mindset as an employee that where you work nine to five oh now I can get up and I can start at 11. and you know if I want to work at night I can work at night no you're working especially when you're starting a business it's 24 7. entrepreneurship is not for the faint of Hearts it is not because you're always pushing the envelope right and and the purpose

of an entrepreneur is to solve problems so every day something happens and you're like oh I didn't expect that and you got to deal with it and I also say entrepreneurship is the fast track to personal development because it's a day right your face you're facing something right here it's like oh man and you can't back down from it you gotta you gotta deal with it they say like 50 of businesses fail and I think what happens for a lot of first-time business owners they're coming out of a job so they're coming out of an

employee mindset and I I know this one guy for example in Phoenix Arizona and he decided he was going to start his own business and he had been an employee all his life so what's the first thing he does he goes and rents a nice office space but then he buys all the nice furniture then he gets a secretary he hasn't made not one dollar and he spends all this because he thinks that's what an entrepreneur looks like first is go make the money first then go rent your office if you even need an office

start out of your home we all started all the entrepreneurs successful entrepreneurs I know all started out of their home but a lot of people I see they they quit their job they start their part-time business and because they're struggling for money they make bad decisions because they're just trying to find how to put money in their pocket to keep their business alive so I I think if you are an employee that's a smart way to go what you just said to start a part-time business start learning What It Takes the reality you got to

get the reality of what it takes and I I came across a study and it was a study of centenarians people that lived over a hundred and they wanted to find what were the common denominators and they found three and one was they had a sense of purpose it didn't matter how big or small but they had a sense of purpose number two they were optimistic and number three was resiliency how well you come back from a setback when you hit that wall do you fall down do you get up you go through it and

I'm like those seem like the three the three characteristics of a good entrepreneur to me sense of purpose optimistic and resilient if you if you're not resilient and you don't you can't persevere do not become an entrepreneur they're so afraid to venture out on their own and not and have not have the security of that paycheck you know a lot of times we say if you got if you have a full-time job keep your full-time job start a part-time business and work it and work it and work it look at what you do in your

spare time and and people go I have no spare time well yes you do if you broke it out how how much are you watching TV how much are you on your iPhone playing video games doing things that really are not important and take that time and channel it into the business that you want to create and we just launched up excuse me a product on finding out what's most meaningful to you because once you can discover what's most meaningful then decisions and and life becomes so much easier because there's more joy there's more better

communication with relationships that they don't teach any of this in school they just say sit down do as you're told take the test by yourself and don't make a mistake and so I think a lot of people they don't want to be uncomfortable they don't want to get out of their comfort zone and the only way we grow and learn is by stretching ourselves and getting out of our comfort zone even by a little bit you know it's at Emerson said this is not the exact quote but something to the effect of if you're not

facing something you fear every day you don't understand the secret of life because that's where growth and transformation happens yeah so and I and I hate making mistakes just like everybody else I hate failing but that's where we learn the most if we can take the lesson of the failure can take the lesson of the mistake and and learn from it then we get much smarter and it's not about do what you love and the money will follow it's not that it's do what you love where do you where's the problem you're solving where can

you be a contribution then you work your butt off and then the money will come amen I can agree with that but I just like I like having I like thinking of making a contribution versus just selling a product right right and I'll say one other thing a lot of people say you know I really want to make a difference in the world and I think my product or my service is going to make that difference but they're not willing to charge money for it or really turn it into a business if you've got a

product or service and you really feel it's going to help help people and help the masses then you have a responsibility to make your business successful so that people hear about you and to get it out to the world [Music] [Music] foreign [Music]