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cthomas343 :

Hey Joel, I read the manifesto back in 2011, and have been following ever

since! Question about the last couple of ultras. You had several races in the

span of a few months, and I'm curious how you were training during that period

to keep from over-training injuries and to stay freshish for the races?

joelrunyon :

Yeah - I did the last 5 in about 3 months and 4 of those in 6 1/2 weeks or

so. Australia - Jan 1st Antarctica - Jan 21st Thailand - Feb 4th Finland -

Feb 17th At the end, I was basically using each race as my "long run" before

the taper. So the Australia race was a good training run for the Antarctica

race. After that, it was mostly some short stuff during the week, some

additional strength work and a longish run on the weekends (10+ miles) to

make sure everything felt good. [(I talk more about this prep on Jason Fitz's

podcast)](http://strengthrunning.com/2017/07/take-

run-7-ultramarathons-7-continents/) I was trying to make sure to do mobility

work + stay loose while traveling - which is almost as tough since I spent so

much time in airpots.

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ld43233 :



Mr. Runyon Your name tells me you are doing what you are meant to do. Keeping

running for those problems. Any idea when the schools are going to be built or

has the construction already started?

joelrunyon :

They're matching them to communities in need right now! I think we'll have

some more details on the dates this fall & (hopefully) have a few started by

the end of the year!

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LittleRowBoat_ :



As a Guatemalan, I came here to say THANK YOU! What was your favorite Ultra

Marathon?

joelrunyon :

I love Guatemala :) Antarctica was probably the most memorable! I really

enjoyed Finland though - as bad as it went and with all the issues I ran into

- it definitely has the best stories.

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auditoryfatigue :



Hi Joel! How much would you say willpower plays a role in what you do, and what

are some ways that you've strengthened your willpower/self-discipline over the

years? Thanks, and keep up inspiring work!

joelrunyon :

I think willpower + confidence tend to multiply each other. I have a hell of

a lot of will power but after I got hurt (the first race) and had to deal

with some business stuff, my confidence was shot. At some point, I closed my

eyes and said I was just gonna go for it - consequences be damned - and then

once I commit to something, I follow through (it's a personal commitment to

myself). I definitely feel like I have confidence that if I commit to

something, I'll have the willpower to finish it out.

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sparselogic :



When is the next WDS bungee jump?

joelrunyon :

This is a great question. We've done it 3 times so far. Interested in #4?

: sparselogic :

:

: Hell yes!

:

:: joelrunyon :

::

:: I'll look a few things up! They did rappelling this year right across

:: from the hall. Thought it would work in well with our "plummet" theme :)

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::: sparselogic :

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::: <grin> Yeah, I had to think of the previous 'plummet' events while

::: watching folks rappel. I'd still rather jump. (source: wearing my 2012

::: Plummet shirt right now)

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:::: joelrunyon :

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:::: 2012! Yah...we're gonna have to update that one...

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answednesdays :



Hey Joel, What kind of advice you would give someone who wants to travel more

and make income in a way that doesn't require being in a physical location?

(i.e. freelance and online)

joelrunyon :

Get really good at what you do. Figure out how to sell those services

outside of your normal 9-5. Become indispensable to your company. Talk to

your boss and tell them that location freedom is important to you and you'd

like to take a pay-cut/hour-cut and be able to work remotely a bit. If they

say no, then you have your services on the side that you're selling already

so you won't be in such a deep hole. My buddy Chris Guillebeau just put out

a book on building your side hustle last week which is a good read [if you

want to get an idea about this](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MT0J7KF/ref=dp-

kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)

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taylorjacobson :



Hey Joel - How has your personal relationship to the concept of "doing the

impossible" evolved since you started? I know that at first it was about

living your life in a new way, and you've clearly internalized that new way.

What has that morphed into? Is there a new phase you're in now? Thanks!

Taylor

joelrunyon :

When it first started off, I wanted to get a job NOT at UPS. Now it's much

more focused on how do I grow my business in the way that I want to and how

do I continue pushing myself physically in new and interesting ways.

: taylorjacobson :

:

: What's next physically?

:

:: joelrunyon :

::

:: Planning for the Fire & Ice Ultra + the Red Bull X-ALPS

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ihavenocluetbh :



Thanks for doing this AMA! Truly impressive and inspiring!! My 2 questions are

basic: What do you eat after running such great distances? What is your go to

snack when you are craving for something sweet? Good luck in the future dude!

joelrunyon :

1) Whatever the heck I want :). My go to post-race food is a massive pizza

(1,

2,

3) 2)

Justin's peanut butter cups. bonus: My current vice is red bull

(although they haven't sponsored me...yet). [If you read this Red

Bull.](http://gph.is/1sD5pjj)

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It's a good question - a lot of people just assume they can't ever be rich.

No you don't need to get a degree. You don't need to get a high-paying job. You don't need to be Elon Musk unless we're talking billionaire rich.

Making money is about delivering value at scale. Either deliver a little bit of value to a lot of people, or deliver a lot of value to a few people. Or do both to rake it in - but this is usually harder.

The most accessible way to deliver value at scale is by building a business.

You also need to figure out why you want to be rich and what kind of rich. Do you want to build a massive empire and make hundreds of millions or does making a couple of million a year and getting to travel whenever you want sound better?

The basic steps are pretty simple. You've got to start by reprogramming your brain a fair bit. Rich people - especially entrepreneurs, don't think about the world in the same way as most people do. More on how to do this later.

After that you'll want to start exploring the opportunities open to you at the moment. There are lots of business models you can replicate and do really well with - you don't need to start completely from scratch and build something the world has never seen before. You would not believe the ridiculously niched business models people make stupid money from. Example - I know a guy who built an online health and safety testing form for oil rig workers that was making $20,000 a month.

When you're starting out it's a good idea to keep things simple and use it as a way to build your skills. You don't want to be trying to build the next Facebook while trying to learn the basics of business. You're probably not as smart as Mark Zuckerberg.

The point is you have to keep learning and learning and learning. You know the business section of the book store you've probably never looked at? Pick the right books and you can pretty much learn anything.

You've been fed a lot of bullshit your whole life - so you need to read:

BOOKS FOR REPROGRAMMING YOUR HEAD

• The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
  It's pretty incredible how many successful people I've spoken to in the last few years have said something along the lines of "well it all started when I read the 4-Hour Work Week...". This is a great book that will give you a huge mindset adjustment and also a bunch of practical ideas and case studies of what you can do.
  
  
• The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco Yeah the book title sucks. But it's gold. MJ has quite a different approach to Tim Ferriss - so that's why I put it here. It's good to get multiple perspectives. The first hundred or so pages rip traditional thinking on wealth as well as guru advice to pieces - it's pretty funny.
  
  
• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason This is a quick and easy read but it's got some great core lessons.
  
  Those will give you a good start. Once you've picked something to work on, you'll want to start reading up on learning sales, mindset, strategy, mindset, business management, mindset and some more mindset. If you jump in you'll quickly find the hardest thing about business is usually dealing with yourself.
  
  Hit me up if you take action on this and I'll be happy to recommend where to go next :)
  
  

Rich Dad Poor Dad catches a lot of flak, but it's actually really good at teaching the absolute basics in an easy-to-follow manner. Like, learn what a Cash Flow Statement is, increase your asset column, learn basic accounting language, separate emotions and money, minimize taxes. Just glean the overall principles he's teaching and don't blindly follow his specific strategies.

The Richest Man in Babylon is another great, easy to read, investing 101 book.

And The Millionaire Next Door is a research-based book on Millionaires in America and what kind of habits and mindsets got them to their current wealth. It's a wonderfully refreshing read after being brainwashed by tv and movies saying that millionaires won it or stole it and live lavish lives. Most actual millionaires are pretty frugal and hard working with modest lives.

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And here are some resources to help you learn all the new words and concepts:

• Investopedia
  
• Bogleheads
  
• Khan Academy
  -- Microeconomics
  -- Macroeconomics
  -- Finance
  
• Personal Finance subreddit
  
• Investing subreddit
  
• Finance subreddit
  
• Accounting subreddit
  
• Financial Independence subreddit
  
• Business subreddit
  
• Economics subreddit
  
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  And when you get pretty familiar with the basics and want to start messing with stuff, I've enjoyed the Think or Swim paper money route. They give you $200,000 in fake money to play around with and invest and practice your strategies. It helps you get acquainted with the research and the interface and the fees for investing. It's a wonderful tool.
  
  And then The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is supposed to be a pretty good comprehensive guide the advanced basics (is that a term?) of investing.
  
  ---
  Or if you want to skip alllll of this and just hire someone, I've read in those subreddits that you want to find a fee based financial adviser. Which you can do here.
  
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  I hope I've helped man! It's a lot of fun to learn about. I wish you all the best.

Wow sorry about your loss but congratulations about your inheritance. The thing is, this is a big deal and both of you need to be ready for the internal mental change that needs to come with such a sudden increase in assets. Most people who win the lottery go right back to their original comfort zone because they just didn't know any other way.

You now have enough money to afford a really good financial advisor (and it will be worth paying for a good one). If you and your husband can get on the same page, meaning that neither of you really know how to handle this much money, then you can agree to both out your trust into a third party expert. This person is better equipped to tactfully tell your husband that $2.5 mil cannot simply sit in a savings account, and will give much better advice for how to invest it than you personally could either. And they will know how to honor a pre-nup without making it a trust issue.

You are a team, so don't let money get in between you, and remember that you need to trust your husband to be the captain and to handle big decisions with the finances. This being said, you can make it your mission to help you both get educated about wise ways to invest.

Edit: Also, I highly recommend you both read the book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and even attend the free Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar. Best thing my SO and I have ever done for our financial success and really helps couples get on the same page. Wish they taught us this stuff (and TRP!) in school instead of all the other BS.

Qualifications: grew up in a very modest (i.e. lower) part of town, parents worked in blue-collar professions, and started buying a rental property in the 1960's, then dad passed away (with four kids). Now definitely intergenerational wealth, all kids went to college in STEM, parents in their 90's (step-dad helped build up RE holdings to 36 units) with holdings in the 8-figures. No I haven't inherited any of it (yet) but well into middle age myself, make very good money (and will leave it at that), and have a few RE holdings.

> I'll have manager experience. I'm also reading a book called "real estate investing for dummies" and I just finished "rich Dad poor Dad"

Good for you, I didn't start reading books on anything finance related until well into my 20's, and then I read a lot of very good books. I don't think much of Kiyosaki, frankly, but as Brian Tracy said 'to earn more you must learn more'. So don't stop, keep on reading, and especially books over blog posts and short pieces. Why? Books will have more complex ideas and more research to back it up.

Regarding your game plan: you did not indicate what you are interested in doing, and what you do well, and what people will pay you to do, and what the world needs. Take a look at this ikigai graphic. Not sure if you know that welding or sales is this for you, and of course there are other things you may grow into. But hey if you have a good idea that this is the path you want to take, good for you!

I came here to say about sales, few salespeople are on Reddit, they are very busy making lots of money to talk about it. In my own (technical) sales field base runs from $65K up to $120K with another 40% commission, but you need to have the right background (STEM college degree, experience as a customer, and aptitude for outside sales) so barriers to entry are high. So yes, six figures in your late 20's is achievable, and it does take a lot of hard work, no doubt!

Of course owning your own business as a contractor, or becoming a top welder, or tons of other things you could do, I know of plenty of people who do very well.

Regarding the end goal, admirable, and I say your thinking is in the right place. The road to FI is varied - real estate is a very good method (the way my parents went, they bought low and held onto their properties in a HCOL area), investing into index funds another good method (again read books like Boglehead's Guide to Investing, or another favorite of mine on the sidebar called The Richest Man in Babylon) The amount these books can make you over five or ten years is a lot. Over 15 or 25 years is huge.

> Even if I don't get to enjoy it

I see many piling on here saying 'you should enjoy it' but I didn't interpret this comment in that way. You realize it's a road not many take (too many live way beyond their means, and don't have savings / passive income / true wealth to show for it). Yes there's sacrifice, and it takes a long time to build up $1,500 in monthly passive income much less $15,000, but people do this and often you cannot tell. (For example, look up the book The Millionaire Next Door.)

Are you on the right path? Definitely YES. The path to financial independence starts with a mindset, and the fact you are asking the question puts you out in front of all the peers of yours who are thinking about lots of other things, which you know all too well.

Will you make mistakes along the way? Of course, we are all human. The important thing is mindset, and the great thing of being younger is that you have time to make other choices, and learn along the way.

English isn't my 1st language.

Ok so vyvanse is a stimulant. It the little brother of Adderall but you can't abuse it because the neurostimulant isn't in the pills. The pills work as a catalyze for you liver to produce the right amount of neurostimulant for you brain.

So if you have a lot of protein when you take your pills you will get a better boost of energy.

First month are like heaven. Limitless like... until it come to a point where you feel all the secondary effect. Depends on your body but me my skin was so tight, my teeth was sensible and I had to drink a lot of water...

Those effect are not strange to an overdose of amphetamine ... vyvanse is an amphetamine.

I stopped using it because the benefits didn't outweight the drawback.

I was put on concerta since then.

But a pills ain't a magical remedy you need to work on yourself and to understand ADHD.

ADHD is like diabetes ... instead of your blood lacking insuline you're lacking dopamine receptor.

This video will start you on understanding more ADHD/ADD : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDliT0GZpE

I recommend reading : Healing ADD form Dr. Daniel G Amen.

But don't purchase is home healing kit it's retarded as fuck. His home healing kit are for stupid mom who put there kids too early on ritatin or think that because her boy's can't stand still and prefer to play videogame they must certainly have adhd.

Get a good psychologist. One that work with other ADHD people. I'm followed by one and it's like my self-development mentor. He's there to help you even if you need to pay him but it will help you. I see him really like on of the only person that I can talk about the struggle that I have with being productive or dealing with emotions. Like this subreddit instead of talking about sexual strategy you talk about self-development)

Clean your lifestyle.

Videogame or everything that come close to instant gratification when you day is just starting it's a no no ... especially at the beginning of your treatment. Your Dopamine is like your willpower. It isn't infinite. An ADHD person don't have a lot of it or can't produce at a faster rate. Everything that is instant gratification is your worst enemy in the long run. As said in the video : You're the most high-tech rocket on the planet earth with the most powerful computer... but you have no fuel. You can't move....


But you will say ( especially under vyvanse ) but dude i'm super productive I found all the info I needed for my paper way faster than before ... or some shit like that... You will start being productive at being unproductive. I was able to teach myself a shitload of thing about dieting/nutrition/fitness ... but I forgot to do my school assignment... I was productive at being unproductive.

What was the most useful to me at that point was getting good grades not reading about nutrition, that can come after I've done my task. It's like taking a shit but not pulling your pants down ... you get thing done ... but not in the logical order.

How do you know you're moving in the right way ?

Be accountable.

Start scheduling your life. Put the big rock 1st etc... This will give you an idea : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNmIxkyHd8

Be A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E

Ex : I keep a pen&paper log for my gym session ... multiple time I thought I wouldn't need it ... 2-3 day later I found myself skipping gym day. There is something that push me to go back and get stronger in writing down the number I just lifted.

It will develop a good quality that men's of today lack : Rigorousness and discipline.

The think is to have the habits of scheduling your day and start doing what you scheduled when it pop-off on your phone/agenda/computer/what ever. I had the bad habits of scheduling my day but pressing ''snooze'' on the even that keep popping up.

Summary : By scheduling you have more control over your life. More control = less anxiety and less screwing around. We ADHD can't see the consequences in the future. We have a great skill to see the big picture but don't feel it. I'm sure you are like this when you start a team project ... you wait before everything fit in the big picture before starting the 1st step ahaha. 2nd great skill is : You can be overfocused ( on the wrong thing ) and achieve thing faster than everyone else. By scheduling you gain control day by day instead of doing a sprint at the end. Life is a marathon.


2nd worst ennemy : " I don't feel like it"

I still struggle with this one.

You're weapon : you need to trick your brain.

Need to study or start the research for a paper or w/e ... ADHD have a problem with estimating time ... When people ask me how much time it will take me ... I DON'T KNOW ... It will take the time that it will take ...

So to trick my brain I schedule 15min ... yeah just that

What it will do :

• 15min is a short amount of time, it will control your anxiety before doing it because you brain can always say : I will do 15 min and close the book that's it
  
  In 15min you will have time to understand the problem you have in front of you. You will have the good informations to guess how much time it can take you to achieve your task, information that you didn't have prior to that. In 15min your anxiety will rise and plateau. That feeling of not being able to finish something and feeling of being overwhelm by the task will seem much smaller now. You gain control of the #1 survivability skill that your ancestor gave you : Connecting the dots.
  
  When the hunter saw the footprint on the grass he connected the dots between seeing the footprint but not seeing the prey, and estimating that there was something there and it's now gone. You're brain connected the dots from previous experience and future outcomes and came up with prediction... what we call instinct/guts in some case.
  
  When you start nothing you're in an illusion of control. You can't have feedback if you're not doing the actions and it's much simpler to imagine the outcomes. That is where procrastination gain is power, in the illusion of control. Much simpler to learn about stupid shit on reddit than to learn what you saw in class. The same "pathway of neurone" (By that I'm illustrating the fact that you brain gain the same satisfaction, you're brain is always developing himself) are used but one give greater outcomes than the other.
  
  You become stronger by Feedback Analysis Further reading on that : Managing Oneself by Peter f. Drucker
  
  
  BUT BE CAREFUL !!!
  
  Do not become Rigid ... this is where discipline come into play.
  
  Rigidity in a lifestyle come from having your standard way to high. You need to hit the ball before scoring home-run.
  
  What do you do if you didn't start where you needed to start ? You reschedule in the hopes that the next time you will feel better and be more prepare or you try to use the rest of the time you schedule and try to use it as much as you can ?
  
  I struggled with that and I still do but I have a better control over it.
  
  I found myself skipping gym session because I didn't feel I would be able to do my Strength Set and after my Hypertrophy set ... so I didn't go to the gym...
  
  One is better than zero.
  
  Now when I feel exhausted or my anxiety is too high I say to myself : OK just go there and do your Strength set and call it off. So I go there do my set and.... magically my brain is in the right mood and I finish what I needed to do ! MAGIC ... not just science.
  
  Note : The program I'm using is 5/3/1 from JimWendler.
  
  In summary : Once your task is scheduled but you don't feel like it or there is an ''emergency'', Try to at least start something or do the One thing that give you the best outcomes. In my exemple : Strength is what build muscle, hypertrophy are just for aesthetic so I needed to at least do my strength set. Lower your standard so you don't feel overwhelm but the anxiety and start ASAP the task you needed to do.
  
  I lost my line of thought will post this for now and come with everything I feel is missing.
  
  I tried to write for an ADHD person and for a normal person. My english isn't perfect but everything seem fine.
  
  TL:DR : Hey you weaktards there isn't a TL;DR. Feel the pain of reading a wall of text or maybe you're just not that interested in learning more about ADHD and you can go back touching yourself over GW or liking Cat picture over imgur.
  

I struggled personally with this question for about 5 years. I used to work for a huge tech company, with good pay and great benefits. Before getting the job there, I went to a college which had a partnership with this company. The company provided money to school, and school provided a steady supply of well trained workers. We had "ambassadors" come down from the company to sell us on how awesome it was to work there. My college friends and I looked at getting a job there as like winning the lottery ( we were from poor working class communities ). This was how life was supposed to work, go to college, get a good stable job at a big company with great benefits. Profit and happiness. This company prided itself on innovation and challenging the status quo which is exactly what I wanted.

After three months there, it became very apparent that this was not what it was all cracked up to be. I was overpaid and underutilized. I spent most of my time performing mundane tasks that require little or no thought, except for strict adherence to procedure. This shook my world view to the core. I had done what society said was the path to success, and was miserable. So I began researching and soul searching to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, and how I wanted to live it. Time and time again I encountered advice that said follow your passion. It seemed to be everywhere I looked, and I'd like to share some of the major things that inspired me to do just that:

An interview with Demetri Martin: At around the 10 minute mark he talks about his choice to leave law school and become a comic. The big quote for me was, "Ok...when I wake up in the morning, what activities would I look forward to doing...what, physically, could I spend my time on, that I get excited about...[and] how can I get money for that." That seemed like a pretty good formula for happiness.

Several TED Talks:

Dan Pink on Motivation: This whole talk. I wanted to work for or build a company that accepts and utilizes this research.

Cameron Herold on Entrepreneurs: This whole talk, but one of the primary things for me is at the beginning where he talks about the bad idea of getting a tutor in French as a child, which he sucks still at, instead of getting a tutor in speaking, which he is great at. Basically, play to your strengths to get exponential returns on effort, instead of clawing to work on things you suck at to make minimal returns on effort.

Chip Conely: Measuring what matters.

Gary Vaynerchuck: Do what you love.

The book The Millionaire Mind: Main concept for me, follow your passion and the money will follow. The thought being, if you care about something, you will work harder at, producing a better quality product or service than something you only marginally care about.

And probably one of the biggest things was my grandfather. He has ran his own business for longer than I have been alive. He absolutely loves what he does and gets paid very well to do it. He is constantly winning awards for his work. If you ever brought up retirement to him, he'd respond by saying, "What else would I do with my time? I love my work, I'll never retire, I may slow down, but I'll never retire."

Currently my life is a personal experiment to test whether or not following your passions will pay off, and if it doesn't at least I know the following quote won't apply to me: "I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do."

TL;DR: Follow your passion!

Maybe checkout The One Minute Manager. It sounds like you definitely won't be in a leadership position, but if you've been out of the corporate environment it might be a good primer for what to expect from the manager-employee relationship. It describes how to be a good manager, but it does so through in the context of trying to grow a successful team and so reading the book should give you an idea of what it means to have a healthy/productive relationship with your supervisor. Also, it's just a good book on leadership: I actually received it from my former CO when I was a firefighter moving up the chain at my station, but it was definitely applicable at my corporate job.

Also, all that said, here's my biggest tip for you: don't just be a silent employee and expect your work to speak for itself. Interact with your supervisor on a regular basis. Try not to be annoying about it, but if you get an assignment, check back with them to make sure you understood what they need. If you returned some kind of project to them, make sure it was what they asked for. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Ask lots of questions. These interactions serve several purposes:

1. They familiarize your boss with you, your face, and your name. You are not the only employee your boss is managing, especially in a call center. You are going to want to stand out relative to the other employees.
   
   
2. These types of interactions make you appear engaged and interested in the task at hand.
   
   
3. You will be less likely to make a mistake (and more likely to correct it early) if you check-in like this. but check-in with your boss even if you understand something. Don't worry, it doesn't make you look stupid, it makes you look like you want to do your job well. It seems weird, but really: sometimes you should even ask questions you're pretty confident you already know the answer to, just as an excuse to get some face-time.
   
   
4. If you don't do this sort of thing, it's entirely possible your boss will literally have no idea who you are. I've worked in cubicle farm environments fed by temp agencies, and after a few years you sort of stop trying to learn everyone's names because there's just so much churn. You figure out quick who's names are important, and it's not the one's who sit quietly at their desk doing their job. They are probably doing an excellent job, but I wouldn't know it because without even remembering their name, I can't correlate the good work I see when I walk by their desk with the metrics I see on my department analytics dashboard.
   
   I hope I've instilled in you how critically important it is that you develop some kind of relationship with your supervisors if you're able. Maybe your call center will be different from the one at my office, but I doubt it. This isn't the military: the people who succeed are the ones who stand out, not the ones who fall in line and conform.
   
   Good luck with the new job, and good luck getting noticed!

If he was initially resistant to going to school, it sounds like the sweatshirt was an excuse, not the actual reason. You may want to explore that further with him; as others have said, your counselors should be able to help with the situation.

But to address the part of your post about your response to him: You allowed him to shift the focus of what was bothering him. If you can step back and be objective about the situation, you'll see him trying to push your buttons (rudeness and disrespect) and can counteract that by not responding to it.

This may sound far-fetched, but there's an old business management book, designed to be a quick and easy read (although it takes a long time to figure out how to implement the ideas, like any other good system) that might help you get a handle on your own reactions: "The One Minute Manager".

What I noticed about it when I was learning to manage employees, years ago, is that many of the techniques are also good parenting techniques, particularly for adolescents. Kids are particularly good at shifting responsibility back to the parents, simply by acting out or pushing hot buttons. My SAH mother was an excellent 'kid' manager, and I recognized some of her techniques!

A later book which built on the principles in the One Minute Manger was called "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey"](http://www.amazon.com/The-Minute-Manager-Meets-Monkey/dp/0688103804) which is even more appropos of your situation, since it highlights all the ways in which lazy employees try to con their managers.

Assigned tasks are the 'monkeys' which employees try to get the manager to do for them; the book highlights the ways in which managers fall for the ploys, and provides counters. But step one is recognizing what's happening at the time.

Take the sweatshirt issue (ignoring that there may be something else at the heart of this behavior, but just assuming there wasn't). He stood in the rain and got it wet and dirty, right? Why wasn't it his responsibility to wash and dry it, if he wanted to wear it the next day? He had a problem, his solution was to turn it into your problem--and you let him. But he's just being a kid and doing what adolescent kids do, which is see-sawing between growing up too fast and not growing up at all.

Your parenting job right now is to manage him past this behavior, and maybe treating him like an "employee"--someone capable of responsibility--is part of the answer. Of course, hugs and love are an acceptable part of this workplace!

Good luck to you!

This is actually already on the minds of a lot of HR people at top companies. IMO, it is more about employee satisfaction at the company, with salary being part of the mix. Gallup did this huge survey using 12 questions to measure employee engagement. They said that if an employee answered with 5s on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being totally agree) to all of these questions, then that was one of the best indicators to company performance. Now, they're peddling this product to a lot of companies, and in my opinion (which counts for nothing), it works.

Read the book First, Break all the Rules, which is written by, surprise! The same guy who developed and is selling the survey.

• Do you know what is expected of you at work?
  
• Do you have the materials and equipment to do your work
  right?
  
• At work, do you have the opportunity to do what you do best
  every day?
  
• In the last seven days, have you received recognition or praise
  for doing good work?
  
• Does your supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about
  you as a person?
  
• Is there someone at work who encourages your development?
  
• At work, do your opinions seem to count?
  
• Does the mission/purpose of your company make you feel your
  job is important?
  
• Are your associates (fellow employees) committed to doing
  quality work?
  
• Do you have a best friend at work?
  
• In the last six months, has someone at work talked to you
  about your progress?
  
• In the last year, have you had opportunities to learn and grow?
  
  I'm bored.

I think it all relates to one-another. You don't need schooling to be successful, but as a young adult, schooling is usually your primary responsibility. Your habits and intelligence begin very early on and I can almost think back to the things that influenced me to be the person I am now.

Just know that it's never too late to change your life. So, if now's not the time for you, then don't fret but maybe make some changes or read books from entrepreneurs. I've heard this book is good. I also like Mark Cuban's book.. I read a lot of informational blogs and articles online though. How people perceive you and respect is earned.

I think it's all important. At least for me, the busier I am with real responsibilities and goals, the better I do at all of them. So, doing well in school while creating something is probably the best recipe for success. On the other hand, student loan debt is a really bad trap most young adults fall into now.

In the end, if you're a hustler about the things you do, you'll find success. Entrepreneurship is more a mental stability game than anything else. I'm glad I had a decent job and consistent paycheck while I tried to do the entrepreneurship stuff. I wasn't a very good employee though.

EDIT: I think the most important thing is to also have "heros" or someone you really look up to. For me, that was my brother. He was naturally very intelligent, so even though I didn't keep up with him in school, I always had his influence for high accomplishments & goals.

Here is a random article I found about stock simulators.

How do you like to learn things? There are tons of books, podcasts and blogs about investing. Here are some popular ones or ones that I have read and used

• Books
  
  • The intelligent Investor
    
  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street
    
  • Your Money Your Life
    
  • The Richest Man in Babylon
    
  • I Will Teach You to be Rich
    
    
• Blogs
  
  • Stock Series
    
  • Mr Money Mustache
    
  • Mad FIentist
    
  • dozens of others, Google is your friend
    
    
• Podcasts
  
  • Money Tree Podcast -- pretty poor production quality but good general stuff.
    
  • There are tons of others, Google it.
    
    Warren Buffett famously/supposedly read every book in the financial section at the library by age 12--I think the important thing to take from that is you are still young and have tons of free time and aside from starting to invest as soon as you can (you can usually start as soon as you have earned income) you should be investing in yourself...getting good grades, figuring out what you want to do after high school, trying out businesses, learning marketable skills (e.g., coding, good writing skills, good interpersonal skills, good organizational skills, etc).
    
    Good Luck!

If your teeth are bad and the enamel soft, it suggests that your diet was or is poor. Studies of remote indigenous people early last century showed that even though they'd never seen a toothbrush, decay was extremely rare and crowded teeth were unknown.

The dentist who conducted those studies, Dr Weston Price, concluded that vitamins A and D, as well as an unknown substance in butter (now identified as vitamin K2) were vital for the formation of bones and teeth, and successfully treated dental deterioration and decay with a healthy diet supplemented with cod-liver oil (contains vitamins A & D) and butter oil (contains vitamins A and K2). Check out Ramiel Nagel's book Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition or, if you can't spare funds for the book, he's got a series of 3 YouTube videos on the topic. He examines the work of Dr Price as well as two other dentists.

Another item to be aware of is the post-metabolisation acidity of foods. Too much acid-producing food in a meal causes your body to raid the bones and teeth for alkalising minerals to try and restore a more neutral pH that the body prefers. Check out The Acid-Alkaline Food Guide: A Quick Reference to Foods & Their Effect on pH Levels, or this brief online list. While we need essential nutrients from acidic foods like meat and mildly acidic ones like butter, it's best to ensure the alkaline-food portion of our diet is the bigger part.

Another item to address your enamel softness problem is to avoid fluoride as much as possible. Fluoride exchanges places with calcium quite readily, and is stripping away the very mineral your teeth need. Excessive exposure (dental/skeletal fluorosis) leads initially to white marks, then brown stains, and in extreme cases, pitting and visible structural deterioration. Fluoride-free toothpastes are available, many based on sodium bicarb/bicarbonate of soda. You can actually use bicarb on its own as a tooth-whitening agent. Before you go using abrasives or brushing extensively though, probably a good idea to boost teeth strength with a good diet for a while first. A variety of fresh produce with lots of leafy greens (chlorophyll contains magnesium, another alkalising mineral involved in bone/teeth formation), and be sure to take daily cod-liver oil and butter and/or cheese.

Remember, your teeth are a window to your bones.. they are like the tip of the iceberg that you can see. You can't put fillings in, or whiten your bones with dental cosmetics: proper nutrition is the easiest and most effective solution for bone health. Eliminating from your diet highly acidic foods such as white flour/bread, white rice, white sugar is an important first step, and has other benefits (like reducing diabetes & heart disease risk).

Regarding your old fillings, I'm afraid there's no easy advice if money is tight. On the financial advice front I can highly recommend George Clason's great little book The Richest Man in Babylon (PDF version here). If you currently drink sodas regularly, as so many people do, one idea to try is to carry an old fizzy drink bottle with you and fill it with water. On every occasion when you would have bought a sugary acidic fizzy drink, put those few coins aside, in a jar or box, forget about them, and drink the water instead. Check your hoard in six months and you might be surprised at its value. (If not sodas, look for other small savings you can make - and then be sure to save the money instead of "dipping into" it!) If you can save enough for the filling replacements, in the interest of your health, have any mercury-amalgam fillings removed very carefully, and replaced with non-amalgam fillings. You'll want to find a holistic dentist, who will remove the amalgam using a dental dam and a proper ventilation system to protect both you and him from the additional toxic mercury vapour that will be released (in addition to the normal continuous de-gassing) when your fillings are disturbed. The filling replacements might take time to save for, but as a first priority you net to stop the rot, and that comes from fixing your diet for the better. Convenience and fast foods have a cost that is far greater than indicated on the cheap price tag.

The Millionaire Next Door changed my entire perspective on money and life. If you read no other PF book, read that one - it's an eye opener. Along the same lines, I'd recommend Your Money or Your Life. If you don't want to be really hands-on with your finances (I have a lot of friends like this) I usually recommend The Automatic Millionaire. It's got a infomercial-esque title, but in reality it's an easy read with really good ideas, particularly for the uninterested/inattentive.

As for investing, try The Boglehead's Guide to Investing. A lot of the info is free at the Boglehead Wiki.

For FREE reading, head over to The Simple Dollar and Get Rich Slowly. Both are incredibly useful websites with extensive archives on investing, frugality, debt, and all things personal finance. I read both every day!

(as an example, here's an article on the 25 Best Books About Money over at GRS.)

A lot of people like Dave Ramsey, but I don't recommend him very much. He's got good advice in there, but his books contain religious references that I feel are particularly useless in a personal finance guide.

Look at networking as a learning mechanism, not a way to meet people who will hire you (although that does happen).

It doesn't matter that you know junior level people and it doesn't matter that the company isn't hiring. This is actually the best time to ask your friends if they can introduce you to their superiors, or peers with more experience. You will look more like a driven, curious person vs. a desperate job hunter.

Your friend: "Hey, my friend jmn357 has a law background but wants to get into this field. He has a lot of questions, but I know you might have some insights that I don't, as I'm a n00b. Do you mind meeting him for coffee or something?"

If it goes well, ask if you can meet them for lunch or take them to coffee or have a quick 15-20 min block of their time for an informational interview. Ask them things like:

• What do you do? What is a typical day like? (you may find the work to be shitty and decide not to pursue this field)
  
• How did you get into the field?
  
• What type of educational background do you have?
  
• What kind of jobs did you work in the past?
  
• What other jobs would someone with your background hold?
  
• Can you tell me about your colleagues and how they got into the industry?
  
• What are some of the big companies in your industry?
  
• What steps would you recommend someone like me take in order to get into an editorial/creative job? (hopefully they already know a little about your background)
  
• Do you know of anyone else/other organizations I could speak to about breaking into the industry?
  
  People love talking about themselves, so you probably won't need to have too many questions prepared. They are telling you the exact steps they took to get a job so pay attention and take notes.
  
  Like a "job interview," be professional and send them a thank you note. They didn't have to take the time to talk to you, so show some gratitude.
  
  Also, get your mitts on this book ASAP.

Exactly. But the sediment prevalent in many of the comments, and in society in general, is that you need to have "x" to be successful. And that "x" is unattainable so you shouldn't bother to try. I disagree. The vast majority millionaires are first generation rich. J. Stanley covers this in a number of his books. And his blog.

The studies in his books are far more in depth but his blog post sums it up best. "Yes you do have a greater chance of becoming a millionaire if you attend the top rated school in America. But the majority of the most economically productive people in America did not attend an elite college of university. Success is more about how you focus your mind upon opportunities and less about your absolute level of analytic intellect. "

Two books I recommend reading. I'm pretty young and yet have been very successful in my career so far. These have helped me quite a bit:

http://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin/dp/0307704076

http://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372916346&sr=1-1&keywords=7+habits+of+highly+effective+people

A summary of some tips:

1. Never ever complain. If you don't like something, always phrase it this way: "I noticed that X isn't adding value to our organization/team/etc. Instead, I propose we do Y, for these reasons: 1, 2, 3. This will result in Z."
   
   Tell this to your manager and colleagues, and you will look like a leader, not a complainer. Ideally, you could even start working on it before you propose it to people.
   
   
2. Do emotional work. Most people think a job is just doing what you're told, but this is only a small piece of it. If you can figure out a way to bring passion, organization, leadership, creativity, etc. to your job, then you will be seen as a stand-out employee.
   
   
3. Make other people be effective. This is straight from "The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People," and really this is something you should adopt in all your life, not just work. Change your perspective so you are thinking about how to make your manager better at her job, for example. Thinking in this way shifts the focus away from your problems, and helps build relationships between you and your peers, which is the foundation of moving ahead in a career.

Positive thinking. Yes, your worst case scenario may come true (someone yells at you, whatever), but a positive person would think, "wow, that person must have had a much terrible day than me."

Usually people ask me how I stay so calm during presentations. I say, "think about all the presentations you've seen in your life. Now think about how many of them were just straight up bad. Probably less than 1%, right? So based on that, you've got 99% chance of being good to fair, and only 1% chance of crashing and burning. The odds are in your favor!"

This also applies to you asking questions. How many times have people come to you asking a question? Isn't your first response usually, "okay, let me help you?" Most people are good and want to help you, so just trust that asking a question won't be met with scorn or intolerance.

Resume writing: The odds of you not getting the job are 100% if you don't send the resume in.

If you need more specific help with job hunting, I highly encourage you to read What Color is Your Parachute? It's a classic resource for job hunters for a reason: it works.

wow thanks for the response! I've always liked books which helped to define strengths. I also find books that wrap thse ideas in a very creative and illustrative fashion better to retain. This reminds me of The Richest Man of Babylon.

Nevertheless thanks Wordslinger1919, I'll have to give your suggestion a good read =)

These books are more work related than philosophical, but it changed the way I looked at work and to a certain extent life in general. I think everyone could benefit from reading these.

• who moved my cheese Teaches you to not fear change but to embrace it
  
• the 1 minute manager Teaches you how to work with people in a positive way
  
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in Teaches you how to get what you want
  
  These books won't teach you how to manipulate or con your way in life, but rather how by changing your own behaviour (in a positive way), you can change that of others (in a positive way).

What you'd like to do is start a business. Starting a business is hard. You're missing the forest for the trees here. Learning the skills well enough to take on jobs is the easy part. Finding jobs that will pay for those skills in exchange for money is the hard part.

I like Side Hustle's approach.

> In my country, the sites for small businesses are not too developed, so my main idea is to make/upgrade sites for local shops/restaurants/gyms/tattoo salons, etc. Nothing fancy or special, just 1 or 2 pages per month, to get some money.

You and literally millions of other people have had this specific idea, and the nice thing about designing websites is anyone, anywhere can do it. You're competing with people half a world away in that particular market :)

If you'd still like to chase this, learn the popular CMSs and eCommerce platforms, create a website/portfolio, and market the ever-loving hell out of yourself. You could try Freelancer, 99designs, and UpWork -- these sites can be good for "kitchen money".

> The other thing is that I really love maps, stats and data visualization.

You can do this full-time for the right business. Working in Excel, slinging pivot tables and your favorite data visualization library. Unless you're living in a country that's absolutely devoid of commerce in general I guess -- "Europe" generally doesn't have this problem.

This book lends some insight into how to go about doing it: http://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344806368&sr=8-1&keywords=one+simple+idea

I'm sure it'd be interesting to be involved in a project like this. I'm not sure I'm the man for the job, but I definitely am interested in the final product if someone did manage to put something like this together.

If you get rich off it, just circle back around for me if you would... it'd be appreciated, lol.

>I really don't buy that one's wealth can indicate so much about an individual's character.

It very well may be that it's not necessarily "wealth" that indicates these tendencies, but rather these tendencies seem to correlate with a higher likelihood of attaining that higher level of wealth at some point. From the research that I've seen, these tendencies are present in the majority of the test sample.

>I have a feeling that socioeconomic status of your family is much more important than whether or not they are 'excessively educated".

It could. I think the level of education point was meant to demonstrate either:

• Concordant with their tendencies towards entrepreneurship and working more hours, they value entering the market as soon as possible at the expense of further education, and seem to view a bachelor's degree as the minimum bar to clear before "getting to work."
  
  
• Concordant with their tendencies towards frugality and heavier emphasis on financial planning, they generally view continued education beyond the minimum as a poor return on investment.
  
  It's not really clear, unfortunately. The research on this topic is not particularly deep or ubiquitous, and is primarily reliant on what's effectively a census -- it's not as a result of controlled experiments or peer-reviewed psychology materials. It's demographics, polling, and interviews, which can establish trends and correlations but not the full explanation of the "why" behind it.
  
  Additionally, these tendencies are simple majority percentages, and while some show very clear trends (hours worked, age, level of education, starting economic class, etc) in the form of very high percentages, others are in the 55-60% range, which is not always indicative of a trend and could be in the margin of error for any conclusions that might be drawn.
  
  >Have a source for all those stats?
  
  There's a few. To be fair most of this is recalling my notes from a freelance article I did 6-7 years ago on the traits of millionaires. I used these two books and an aggregate of data I found on Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and a few others. As I stated earlier in my post, the data and the methods behind it appear to be sound, but they don't provide the amount of depth that I'd prefer.
  
  >The rate of millionaires who are 3 generations of less removed from an immigrant has no bearing on how likely everyone else is to become one, unless you are assuming there is a fixed amount of millionaires in the U.S. or those are two separate statistics.
  
  I may have misrepresented that one, or at least worded it poorly. The research showed that people whose grandparents or parents were immigrants to US achieved millionaire status at a higher rate than those who came from families that have been present in the US for longer than 3 generations.
  
  Overall, even if the research isn't perfect, it still seems to clearly demonstrate to me that the incentives behind work are far more complex than what OP posited.

I am reading a book right now called "Managing Oneself" by Peter F. Drucker. It's super short (60 pages with huge margins and large font). I think it might be worth your while to read. In it he talks about people exactly in your situation. He would postulate that maybe you're much better in a sub-management position than a management position. He would also postulate that it's not so much about "advancing your career" as it is figuring out where you fit in and how/what you contribute. In other words, perhaps you took this current job because you felt like you needed to advance your career because that's what people do. But the advancement of a career does not necessarily correlate with happiness.


I hope I don't sound like I am telling you this is the way it is. That's not my intention. Your situation just reminded me of the book I am reading and thought it might provide some alternative perspective and insight for you.


Good luck!

> If someone could build a prototype, find investors, and bring it to market then I'd be thrilled with 5%.

Well, that's actually within the range that people get paid for licensing their ideas to companies. They do all the work and take all the risk, and you receive a royalty. If you're interested in this, you should read One Simple Idea by Stephen Key. It's a great book that explains everything about the licensing process. I've met the author in person, and he's a fantastic guy. Very generous and truly loves helping people.

I feel like a woman when my advice, intuition, and expertise are valuable to myself and others; when I have energy for the day- looking good and well rested; and (probably most importantly) when I have my eyes on what I want for myself- not how I compare to others. I'm in a transition, myself, leaning more toward the adult side of things. Sometimes I fall back into an "it's not fair" trap, judging people around me, and I have to pull myself back into adulthood. Complaining is the ultimate un-classy/elegant thing to do. This will sound VERY cheesy, but I highly recommend the book Well Being. Keep in mind that this is coming from a trivia-playing, beer-drinking, sailor-mouth woman who didn't own makeup before her own wedding... but I'm very happy with myself!!! Good luck, girl!

Yeah.. navigating a classroom full of 13 screaming two year olds for hours on end... just a bit stressful..

​

I remembered in a book I read, I think it was this one- (Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements ) that in a study, people who defined themselves as "successful" or as having a good overall "wellbeing" were those who loved their jobs. That statement was an eye opener for me.. I had no idea some people actually enjoyed their work everyday. All I ever knew was existential dread... The book is definitely a good read if you're interested. It's what got me thinking about my work, and inspired me to look for a job I could actually enjoy, the teaching one.

​

I'm sure you will find joy in your work again, perhaps with the switch of a job. Surely the right one is out there. Relevant and engaging work is not always easy to find, and the search can quickly become exhausting. But sometimes, given time, the right job will find you.

Went through something like this recently. I’m 36. Never second guess having ambitions. Just have a plan and can articulate them. Also don’t be a dick. That never helps your case.

First, have a plan. Know what you want or at least an idea. Is it a specific role? Do you know what you need to learn / gain experience with in order to get it? What stretch assignments can you do and who can your shadow to build experience?

Second, start thinking about other employers who might be able to offer what you want. If you can, reach out to managers there to talk about your career aspirations. Your current employer is not the only way to grow. You don’t owe them anything more than a day’s work for a day’s pay.

Third, pull your manager aside and bluntly but professionally tell them what you want. Ask for their advice on how to get there, tell them what you’re doing on your own to build experience and ask for stretch assignments. Ideally, make a plan together that has deliverables on both sides.

Finally, see #2. Have a backup plan and be prepared to leave. There may be lots of reasons (budget for example) they can’t promote you that are beyond your immediate manager’s control. Alternatively, maybe your employer is taking you for granted and you are most valuable to them where you are. Or maybe there’s a personality conflict between you and your manager. If any of these is the case you’re not getting promoted, so it’s best to consider other options.

This book really helped put things into perspective for me. I still didn’t get the promotion I was looking for but have now taken a lateral move to build more experience (sometimes change is good). I figure if I’m not on track in a year I’ll go to the competition.

Good luck!

[edit] also if you want to be client facing, I suggest learning some sales skills.

There's 3 kinds of incomes: A, B, and C income:

C - A job, the worst way to make a living. Working for another man trading dollars for hours. Slogan: "I'll learn to love (tolerate) what I do and live with what it gives me, at least until I save up enough money to strike out on my own."

B - Contracting work, a business you work. Trading dollars for hours still, but you work for yourself and set your own price. Example, creating and selling products or providing a service. Slogan: "I get paid what I'm worth because I work hard, make my own hours and prices"

A - Passive income streams, AKA residual income, a business that runs itself. Acquire a system of assets. Assets vary greatly and are generally built over time. Examples: Owning a rental unit, owning rental boats, owning a storage facility, really anything you can rent out is an asset, owning an online business that generates enough money for you to pay a manager to run it for you, investments in an institution that pays off high-yields, a copyright that leads to royalty payments, Or setting something up so others can make money, and take a small percentage (Facebook & twitter). Slogan: "Key word: Ownership. I've worked hard, sacrificed for the future, and made tough decisions most people don't. So now I don't have to work for money anymore... my money works for me now!"

Some books on how to get to Level A: 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad', 'The Richest Man in Babylon' Good luck out there :)

Just so you know, DD is a bit ambiguous in finance land and I was confused (I thought you had automated your direct deposit ala The Automatic Millionaire). I figured it out from context though.

But yes, I agree that you can get most of the benefit for little work. In MMM's example, he considers reducing expenses to be increasing his quality of life, so I read his blog from that perspective.

Personally, I enjoy thinking about optimizing. I'm an engineer and I like to see how much fluff I can cut out without negatively impacting our happiness. My wife isn't the same way, so she keeps me in check. I'm not as hardcore as MMM, but I do bike to work, do most of my own home repairs and rarely eat out, and sometimes to my wife I might as well be MMM (she grew up in a high spending, low income family, I grew up in the opposite).

Don't cut anything that will make you less happy. I think we and MMM can agree on that. =)

Very interesting article. Whenever this topic comes up I think about a couple books. First, Break All The Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths. These books outline what makes a manager great and how the greatest managers identify, motivate, and retain the most talented people in their organization. Interesting read.

• Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
  
  
• Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
  
  
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
  
  
• The Richest Man in Babylon: The Success Secrets of the Ancients--the Most Inspiring Book on Wealth Ever Written
  
  
• The Wealthy Barber, Updated 3rd Edition: Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent
  
  
• The Automatic Millionaire, Expanded and Updated: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
  
  
• Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
  
  
• I Will Teach You To Be Rich
  
  
• The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
  
  Ich habe jedes dieser Bücher gelesen und kann es empfehlen. Ich würde jedes davon wieder kaufen und wieder lesen.
  
  
• The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing <-- Steht noch auf meiner Lese-Liste

Just posted this (http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/2q8q0y/i_have_a_non_complicated_invention_how_can_i_help/) and think it relates to you, too, TurtleHustler:

Read this book! http://www.amazon.com/Invent-It-Sell-Bank-Million-Dollar/dp/0804176434

And this one: http://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159

If you don't want to run the business and manufacturing yourself do consider the slim chance of licensing the product. InventRight could help then. I think it ups the odds of getting a licensing deal . . . if the product is worthwhile. Too many think they have innovative products when it's, like, a disposable cat bowl.

Cover yourself with the right documents, too. NDA, non-circumvention, non-compete, you know the game.

The reality is most people will say they'll buy but how many would put their money where their mouth is come down to it? The first book mentioned does talk about that in a very enlightening, reality-inspiring way.

You could see about going the Kickstarter route if you need funding. I'd at least go patent-pending beforehand. Big companies can canvas that site often for ideas.

The Four-Hour-Workweek approach is a safe one, too, as far as market testing goes. Do read that book if you haven't. I'd test the heck out of the market before putting in the money you're certainly going to have to put in, especially if you're talking a regular patent and funding your own manufacturing.

TIL Employer-provided health benefits are a scam... lol.

>the stock market and retirement funds have lost a lot of value in the last 4 years. full stop.

And yet they're on pace to recover and more... Also why are you talking like a telegram?

>why you oppose this notion so strongly? are you richer than warren? do you think you will ever be?

No and No, but I like to respect what people earn, as opposed to thieving it via the government.

>i thought u were in high school or college because statements like 80% of people can save 10% of their income. are u fuckin insane?

No, not insane. It's the truth. It's the premise behind best-seller books such as this one and this one.

>most people just cant save a penny, actually they are crazy indebted, go google some graphic about debt.

All that is saying is that there's a lot of people out there with poor money management skills. That I do not deny. All I've said is that 80% of the people are capable of saving 10%. Whether they actually do it or not is another story.

>go on. keep defending the interests of the rich. are you one of them?

Once again, no. But you said you were, so why are you arguing against what's in your best interest?

Obvious answer you know will come up is save some of if. Even though long term savings are very good, being young just start working on saving up a healthy chunk of cash.

Depending on your personality, you may also have to budget some play money. What I mean by that is if you're the type of person to either 1) never spend your money on enjoying life or 2) can't keep yourself from blowing money. Set an amount you spend for pleasure that you have to spend each month, no more and no less.


The book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind has a really good breakdown for how to split up your money: https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Millionaire-Mind-Mastering-Wealth/dp/0060763280

I reccomend reading a book like "The Millionaire Mind" and "Dare to Lead: Uncommon Sense and Unconventional Wisdom from 50 Top CEOs." Not everyone plays dirty to win though difficult decisions do arise in any long-running, large business. I really came to enjoy "The Millionaire Mind" because it valued thrifty living and being honest and personable rather than cutthroat, cutting corners, and playing fast and loose.

Sure, scientists are wage slaves, but they are also above uncredentialed workers in a very distinct hierarchy. Professionals are expected to assign their creativity to whatever benefits their bosses/owners, but do this without direct supervision. They internalize the logic of capital to a much greater degree than a nonprofessional worker who is simply expected to follow orders. Disciplined Minds is a brilliant analysis of the professional class with a focus on science and the academy. The audio book version is free.

If you you're looking for help learning yourself, I'd recommend starting with the following books:

• Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs -- learn how to deal with the numbers and evaluate if a company is doing well
  
• The Beginner's Guide to Saving & Investing for Canadians -- learn the basics of investing with specifics for Canadians
  
• How to Win at the Sport of Business -- more inspirational but a good read
  
  From there look for topics in the specific type of business you are looking to run or the type of markets you're interested in.

Out of the books I read, these were my favorite.

• Meditations
  
• The Effective Executive
  
• Managing Humans
  
• The New One Minute Manager
  
• How To Win Friends and Influence People
  
  I suppose these focus less on "leadership" so much as management. But they are all helpful when it comes to thinking about being a leader.
  
  I also can't stress enough the importance of being introspective, and taking the time for self reflection. It's crucial that you be able to take a look at yourself, and see how your actions affect others. How you make others feel. Things like that. I know that's not particularly helpful, but I guess all I can say is do whatever makes the most sense for you to make yourself a more empathetic human being.

I had the same issue for a long time

I suggest reading "The Richest Man in Babylon" - It's changed my perspective on savings, and wealth in general. you can find it here; (https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496006456&sr=8-1&keywords=richest+man+in+babylon)

Before you can truly save money you have to be in the right mindset, this'll help with that.

What it really sounds like is that you need a whole mindset change. I would recommend starting off getting some education (either college or self-taught) and develop confident mindset. You've taken the first step with seeing that you have a issue and asking for help.

There's a few books I can recommend: Think and Grow Rich, I Will Teach you to be Rich, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind.

Even if money isn't your goal, these books help you discover what you should be focusing life on.

Now it's all about doing it.

There are classes in hospitality and resort management. If your parents are serious they and/or you should be taking them. Community colleges and even four year colleges offer degrees in this sort of thing.
Campgrounds are a huge industry. There are professional organizations dedicated to it. Find out about them and join.

You MIGHT have luck contacting Stéphane Deschênes of Bare Oaks. He runs a first-class place.

Read this book. (And several of the others on that page.)

You are dipping your toe into a deep career field. Good luck.

I like these anecdotes that show the power of compound interest. Here is another from The Automatic Millionaire. I saw something like this in my early 20s, and being a math nerd, I've been compelled to max out my retirement contributions ever since. I'm now in my early 40s and have around $700k saved for retirement. The future is looking pretty sweet.

As far as other sub-reddits, there isn't really a good one dedicated to management. I'm subbed to r/business, r/consulting, r/management, and r/smallbusiness (this one might be the best for you because there are a lot of posts asking how to deal with small teams and difficult employees).

Really basic: One Minute Manager https://www.amazon.com/New-One-Minute-Manager/dp/0062367544/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506001797&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=one+minut+emanager

Story Factor: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Factor-2nd-Revised/dp/0465078079/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506001667&sr=8-1&keywords=story+factor

Honestly, there's nothing better than on-the-job experience when it comes to management. You might want to follow up with your boss and ask the same pointed question, "my team seems to be growing, do you have any recommendations of books that could help me become a better manager?"

As others have said, you can get a provisional patent application filed. From what I understand, these are quite cheap. With this and a working prototype, you can start pitching your ideas to companies. There's some books out there that might help: http://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159

If you don't want to sell your idea, you might be able to do some fundraising with sites such as Kickstarter.com

Remember to do some market research and learn how to sell ideas and marketing. People have great ideas but don't know how to sell them. Do homework before investing your own money. Most products are never commercialized and only half that are turn out to be successful. Learning to do things right could save you a lot of money.

For what it is worth it really doesn't matter. You are going to make the best choices for yourself for whatever circumstances you will find yourself in. I would say that if you expose yourself to a wider array at this point you have the ability to discern what you like (still a student). Job market wise you can choose what you would like as a career. Be a sponge

I can recommend books.

• How to Win Friends and Influence People - required reading
  
• Behind Closed Doors - management and leadership
  
• Its Your Ship - management and leadership
  
• One Minute Manager - management and leadership
  
• Mythical Man Month - IT specific
  
• Peopleware - IT specific
  
  Don't look at this as something mandated, look at it as an opportunity to learn. If the class you mentioned covers general leadership and management you should consider it, direct reports or not. If it's just how to file HR paperwork and stuff, ya don't bother.

Buy a copy of The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clayson. It's $4 in paperback (used) or Kindle versions.

http://amzn.com/0451205367

It's short, it's easy to read, and it contains all the basics of personal finance that you need to know. Even if you only take the first chapter to heart, you'll be doing better than most of your peers.

Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives

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This book would answer yes. It's been a while since I've read it, admittedly. But what really stuck with me was the idea that school, in the case of the book it was graduate level schooling, selected for people that were willing to submit to the demands of the institution and the individuals that made it up regardless of how absurd those demands were. Graduate students aren't exactly known for loving their lives as they have to deal with committees, panels, advisors, and a multitude of other factors that each hold a part of the key to their future, not to mention themselves. If those parts of the keys don't line up, then a graduate student will fail.

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From a critical standpoint of capitalism, a benevolent perspective is that self-discipline gives individuals the opportunity to make sure the part of their own key is fashioned to reduce as much friction with the other parts to increase the chances of that key lining up. But, even so, every individual exists within a social context that will go a long way to determining that individual's future just as much, if not more than, the individual's own actions. Hence the focus on collectivizing in modes of life that collectivists have. Success isn't about achieving something as an individual. So, while self-discipline is still useful from the anti-capitalist perspective, it's not quite as useful as picket lines and strikes and whatnot.

Good for you bilbobillikins! A couple of books that helped me make the transition were - High Output Management and First, Break All the Rules. Apart from this there is a great series of podcasts where Mike and Mark talk about various challenges and have a great perspective on how to deal with typical situation that managers would face. You can find them at Manager Tools website.

Get really good at what you do.

Figure out how to sell those services outside of your normal 9-5.

Become indispensable to your company.

Talk to your boss and tell them that location freedom is important to you and you'd like to take a pay-cut/hour-cut and be able to work remotely a bit. If they say no, then you have your services on the side that you're selling already so you won't be in such a deep hole.

My buddy Chris Guillebeau just put out a book on building your side hustle last week which is a good read if you want to get an idea about this

Read and listen to Dave Ramsey if you want to be "good" with personal finance.

If you want to "optimize" finance, then come hang out with us in r/financialindependence

Podcasts: ChooseFI, Afford Anything

Blogs: Mr. Money Mustache

Books: Simple Path to Wealth, Your Money or Your Life, Millionaire Next Door, The Richest Man in Babylon

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Some pointers:

1. Don't do what most people do. Chances are, they know less about personal finance than you do.
   
2. Spend based on your value (within your means of course), not based on the percentage of income.
   
3. Don't spend money to impress others.
   
4. If you think 20's is time to spend every penny to have "full" experience, look at this chart.
   
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Agreed - A Random Walk Down Wall Street is the best book out there.

Also, see The Automatic Millionaire. This is a convincing book as to why you need to start saving for retirement at a young age, and how every year you wait to start saving can result in tens of thousands lost at retirement. (Essentially - compound interest starts compounding hugely after 25 years).

Also, Fooled by Randomness is a classic as well about having a sophisticated approach to investing - e.g. how randomness fools individuals into thinking that they're actually controlling the market in investing...

>mitä varten te ylipäätänsä säästätte

Ei täyspäiväinen työnteko nappaa. Olen järjestänyt asiani kivasti ja en usko että mun tarvii koskaan käyä töissä toimeentulon takia. Muuten toki voi käyä puuhastelemassa.

Jos vinkkijuttuja kaipaat niin lukase pari kirjaa:

Think and grow rich

The richest man in babylon

How rich people think

Seven strategies for wealth and happiness

Ihan sillee ympäripyöreesti avaan: Köyhyys ja rikkaus on elämäntapoja. On köyhiä joilla on vitusti massia (brittiläinen koditon lottovoittaja ryyppäs rahansa vuodessa, on jälleen persaukinen) ja rikkaita joilla on vaan vähän (vaikka miljonääri somaliassa voi olla vitun rikas paikallisesti mutta maailmalla suhteellisen varaton).

give this book a read.

honestly I am just starting to try it out too, so I don't know all the answers.

but yeah, a provisional sounds like a good place to start

Every paycheck, I have my account automatically put 10% away into my savings acct that's in it's own separate account so it's a little more difficult to get to. That shit starts adding up really quick, and I highly recommend it. It's amazing how easily you can live off 90% of every paycheck.

I learn it from "The Richest man in Babylon" which I also highly recommend :-)

To clarify, he no longer works in Chicago, but he may be able to give you some tips on how to break into the industry there.

Definitely read up on Informational Interviewing. It'll help your job hunt tremendously. I highly recommend this book.

There's tons of great books and blogs on this topic. The most common phrasing of the ideas is Personal Finance.

This book and it's partner book "Smart Couples Finish Rich" helped me get started.

http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Millionaire-Powerful-One-Step-Finish/dp/0767923820/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Being a millionaire isn't. Most people who are extraordinarily wealthy typically have average to slightly above average intellect. A large swath don't even complete college. This book does a pretty good job of exploring the idea. Here is another relatable article.

off the top of my head:

Meditations, with The Inner Citadel as a reader

Letters from a Stoic

A Guide to the Good Life by Irvine

Do The Work by Pressfield as well as The War of Art by Pressfield

Managing Oneself by Ducker

Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl

What Predicts Divorce by Gottman

Nicomachean Ethics

Models by Manson seems to be popular on reddit

So Good They Can't Ignore You by Newport, as well

I'm currently reading Triumphs of Experience by Vaillant and find it insightful.

Like a large minority here, I was a classic centre-right conservative while I muddled through high school. I didn't understand then, but I recognise now that the "right" part of me was the economic freedom part, and the "centre" of course was the social freedom. My view of the world was that socialism had failed, so I accepted and defended individual economic freedom. I knew governments were inefficient with my money, and wanted them to have little to do with me. Socially, I fiercely defended conservatism. I could see consequences that others seemed incapable of seeing. Marriage needed to be defended, because childeren were at stake. Drugs... I laughed uproariously every time someone weakly suggested decriminilization. Of course.. the only reason more deaths and accidental overdoses didn't happen were because selfless police were out on the streets at night stopping a horrible immoral and violent trade. At the same time I had nothing but contempt for "anti-capitalists". I opposed the wars fought by "our" enemies, but I supported all 21st century wars fought by America and my country. A strange blindness to hypocracy infected my life.

Through university I ignored the Socialist Alliance. That was the extent of my politics through those 4 years. I was way too busy learning facts and philosophies of my Bacheolor Degree.

In 2008, my second-last year of uni, I kept hearing the name Ron Paul. I saw him as some guy popular with liberal arts students, so I wasn't even interested enough to read more than his seven-letter name. However, at the same time, I started to see deep deep problems with conservatism. Firstly, in Australia conservative politicians are universally seen as economic masters, but even then I could see that eight years of Bush administration hadn't done wonders for the US economy. Meanwhile, I was growing up. I could see huge problems with the two wars our nations were fighting. Afgans and Iraqis had a completely different culture to ours. Where we applaud most compromises, Middle Eastern culture (not exclusively) sees it as a weakness. I knew that there was no real reason to fight in Iraq, and to me the Afgan campaign was the world's most expensive assassination attempt against one person (Osama bin Laden). To an economic conservative, that hurt my sensibilities.

My original fling with voluntaryism and individualism came via a book that was highly recommended to me. Called The Richest Man in Babylon, it is a book that explains how individuals produce wealth. I never knew this. For the first 20 years of my life I believed, as most statists believe, that society produces wealth, and the sneakiest people are the richest. This book showed me how my life came down to my own decisions, my own wisdom. In the first chapter, the main character (a master chariot builder) is told that he doesn't own all of his money, he only owns a portion of it. When all is said and done, he pays others to help him live. Only the portion that he keeps as savings is his own. That money can work for him.

It spoke to me of one thing above all else: In a free society, people have to help each other in order to survive. This was the pure capitalism I could intuitively see from a young age.

The first time I really found out about libertarianism was late last year. I was staying at a friend's house for holidays, and began reading a very balanced series of books by Richard J. Maybury. The first one was "The 1000 Year War", a tale of how foreign policy of myriad powers have brought us to a dangerous ground of tit-for-tat terrorism attacks and invasions. Mr Maybury didn't defend the US, and he didn't explain away terrorism as justified. It was a brand new idea for me. He seemed so intellecual, honest, and peaceable. This was what I wanted to be! I hated to feel self-righteous. I didn't care what my thoughts sounded like, so long as they were principled and worked better than the status-quo. I began to research further. Every night of research gave me hours of entertainment with very very smart tutors. There was Milton Friedman, F. A. Hayek, Learn Liberty, How the World Works Youtube channel, Mises, Thomas Sowell, Gary Johnson, Adam Kokesh, Ron and Rand Paul (I had finally discovered their platforms).

So now, after less than a year as a libertarian, I can see that I am still journeying. I know that Anarcho-Capitalism is the pure form of our principles, and I really want to reach there. I am a firm Minarchist-Libertarian who would like to one day join those ranks when I am firmly convinced. But we are all struggling in the same direction, and for that I am proud!

Absolutely! Here's a short list of non-magic books that I commonly see recommended to magicians.

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud

Purple Cow - Seth Godin

Delft Design Guide - multiple authors

An Acrobat of the Heart - Stephen Wangh (shouts out to u/mustardandpancakes for the recommendation)

In Pursuit of Elegance - Guy Kawasaki

The Backstage Handbook - Paul Carter, illustrated by George Chiang

Verbal Judo - George Thompson and Jerry Jenkins

Be Our Guest - Ted Kinni and The Disney Institute

Start With Why - Simon Sinek

Lots of common themes even on such a short list. What would you add to the list? What would you take away?

I would recommend checking out this book:

"What Color Is Your Parachute"

It helped me incredibly, good luck!!

Always save 10% of your income.
Figure out ways to invest your savings so that hey multiply

I highly recommend this book: The Richest Man in babylon

Not specific to IT, but a good read with universal applicability:

Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423145844/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_vg7FybM4XF4NB

Not a Webinar but this book is supposed to be excellent:

https://www.amazon.com/Be-Our-Guest-Perfecting-Institute/dp/1423145844

Thinking of users as Customers rather than annoying users also goes a long way to creating a culture of service. Taken from "The Art of System and Network Administration. It's worth reading as well.

I recommend reading Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why. It has lots of insight into how companies work and anecdotes from people who have been successful in moving up the ladder. It also has some general misconceptions that people have.

You can find a summary presentation here.

He needs to get a working prototype in hand, get help from a marketer for a sales pitch and get it in front of people from True Temper or Jackson(two of the largest wheel barrow manf). This is not something I would try to bring to market myself, but I would try hard to license this to companies with the infrastructure and retail systems in place already.

This is a great book on the topic by Stephen Key.

I got the Richest Man in Babylon! by George S. Clason out of college It was published in 1926 and is still great advice. There is also a free audio version here!. The book is written very differently than most personal finance books. The author uses parables to teach financial lessons. This makes it a great introduction for the financial newbie. The part that most stuck with me is:

"“A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods."

I joined the Peace Corps after college so I didn't get around to implementing Mr. Clason's advice. For some reason, over the three year period I was out of the US, his advice changed in my memory to three-tenths. So since I got my first full-time professional job at 27, I have been aiming to save 30% of income. I haven't always met this goal but I have averaged saving at least 20% of my gross income.

This past May, I read Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence! which introduced me to FIRE. While I'm a little sad about the 6 years, I wasn't saving for FIRE, the savings I accumulated is a great start. The approach in this book has been very useful in figuring out what I am willing to give up in order to increase my SR and achieve FIRE sooner.

Edit: fixed hyperlink

Welcome. One more - wish I'd found this as early as you're asking, but I think this book is foundational in personal finance: The Richest Man in Babylon
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0451205367/ref=pd_aw_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=T6BW800K95JP290PTWQE

Because of how you worded your title, take money and turn it into more money, I'll recommend The Richest Man in Babylon. Its about the philosophy of making money. It provides absolutely no concrete examples but it does give you certain philosophical rules that you can learn about that will help you deal with the actual financial world we live in. http://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367

The Millionaire Mind is a book based on such a study you describe:

The Millionaire Mind targets a population of millionaires who have accumulated substantial wealth and live in ways that openly demonstrate their affluence. Exploring the ideas, beliefs, and behaviors that enabled these millionaires to build and maintain their fortunes, Dr. Stanley provides a fascinating look at who America's financial elite are and how they got there.

The Millionaire Mind https://www.amazon.com/dp/0740718584/ref=cm_sw_r_wa_apa_i_BY2LDbJYPQRD8

You may be interested in The Education of Millionaires.

https://www.amazon.com/Education-Millionaires-Everything-College-Successful/dp/1591845610

It’s about a bunch of people from humble beginnings that persisted,scraped and fought until they became successful. I thought it was very inspiring.

Chris Guillebeau wrote two great books:

The Side Hustle

$100 Start-Up

Check them out and let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Greg

You can buy his ebook which is just an aggregation of his blog posts. Super cheap but fun read:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI

throwaway (despite the name) is legit.

If you want to know more about the stock market and why index funds are where it's at, check out A Random Walk down Wall Street. You learn things like 80% of "managed" mutual funds perform worse than index funds. not only that, managed funds charge much more in the way of fees, effectively charging you more to lose money. He also investigates if the stock market is correlated with fashionable skirt length in women or the superbowl champion (yes these are real theories).

If you want to learn more about personal finance, check out The Richest Man in Babylon. To this day one of my favorite books. If you let money be your master, you will always be a slave. If you are the master of your money, no one can ever own you. fuck yeah.

You think that, but you should read Linchpin. Great book about making yourself indispensable.

Richest Man in Babylon

The Road Less Traveled

Man's Search For Meaning

Things are already serious and getting more so but you don't know it. You're going to make decisions that are incompatible with who you wanted to be when you grow up without anyone saying a thing or you noticing. The foundation for being a good man is either solidified now or (as in my case) built amid the chaos of realizing I've drifted far from my self without knowing it in my forties.

All of these books are truly helpful but if you only have time for one make it the road less traveled. The first paragraph may change your life and stop you from being an entitled self-pittying child which, by and large, is how most of us enter our twenties and often thirties

Anyone wondering about wealth:

Read The Millionaire Mind

Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Read The Millionaire Next Door

These books highlight the differences in how people talk to their children about wealth.

The One Minute Manager

I cannot stress enough the importance of this book. You can finish it in half a day, I've read it multiple times. Such a simple and effective way of managing any team.

1. Habit and The Millionaire Mind are extremely good reads
   
   
2. I'm fond of indian sitting
   
3. Linkin Park and Eminem
   
4. Very much
   
5. I do take it into consideration
   
6. I manage my own investments
   
7. Be fluent enough in business Mandarin

I think he's taking a lot of those ideas from the book "Disciplined minds". However, that book is only looking at people who went to graduate school. I remember hearing Chomsky giving positive comments on this book in the past.

The younger you start savings the better off you'll be. Even if it's just a little every day.
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-power-of-compound-interest-2014-7

READ: The Richest Man in Babylon

READ: Rich Dad Poor Dad

Do this, and you'll be ready to be on your own.

Honestly I would just read Richest Man in Babylon and use the 10 / 70 / 20 principle they talk about. Use that through college and then when you graduate you can have a much more meaningful conversation about finance. (cause you will have money to use)

I highly recommend 'Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why':

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Gets-Promoted-Doesnt-Second/dp/160774600X

Two suggestions:

What Color is my Parachute by Richard Bolles

http://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2011/dp/158008270X

The Whole Earth Catalog edition from the early 1980s (can be found in many public libraries)

The first book is about figuring out what sort of career you'd find most interesting and engaging. The second is a sampler of the best books on almost every subject under the sun, circa the early 1980s, and is sort of like the parachute book but for life itself.

This sounds like a good recipe to become the next Mark Cuban.


http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI

Have you checked out Stephen Key and his book One Simple Idea? I think that'd be a great place to start!
https://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159

You're going to need about 2 million saved/invested if you don't want to eat your seed corn (so to speak) and make that money last another 40 plus years.

You can invest directly with Vanguard, Schwab or Fidelity and avoid the sleazy bankers.

Are you in the military and have a TSP? It is a very good program. If you are working for a private contractor do they have a 401K and you should be investing in a Roth IRA.

I would recommend Four books to get you started:

• Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John Bogle.
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Mutual-Funds-Imperatives/dp/0471392286/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1498405283&sr=1-3&keywords=Common+sense+on+Mutual+funds
  
  
  
• The Boglehead's Guide To Investing
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Investing-Taylor-Larimore/dp/0470067365
  
  
• The Millionaire Next Door and the Millionaire Mind.
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Americas/dp/1589795474/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1498405326&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Millionaire++next+door
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Mind-Thomas-J-Stanley/dp/0740718584/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0740718584&pd_rd_r=ZAD0ZV4E79MXHZDZTE2B&pd_rd_w=SlHQm&pd_rd_wg=h8174&psc=1&refRID=ZAD0ZV4E79MXHZDZTE2B

> What do you mean by acting like a child?

Stop spending like a retard and fucking anything with a moist hole. You said in a different post that there are a lot of women, men and sex. Enjoy the STI's and superficial women who base your worth on the brand names you wear. You're investing in status symbols to put on a show for other people, STOP IT.

> Like where do I find investing and tax professionals? HR Block?

Dave Ramsey's ELP list would be a good place to start looking.

A little reading might be in order as well:

• [The Millionaire Next Door](http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next- Door-Thomas-Stanley/dp/0671015206)
  
• Stop Acting Rich
  
• Rich Dad Poor Dad
  
• The Richest Man in Babylon
  
• The Total Money Makeover
  
  Try to find someone who would loan the book to you, or visit the library. I've been through each one of these in audio book format while I drive for work. They should all be available at the bay, but check your library first.

Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Jeff Schmidt
https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857

An anarchist physicist from UCI who was fired for writing an amazing book about the subservient role of the professional to oppressive hierarchies and institutions. Chomsky signed a letter with a bunch of other intellectuals supporting him. Howard Zinn said he's been "waiting a long time for someone to write this book" and Thomas Frank gave him a shout-out in his book Listen Liberal (also a good one http://listenliberal.com/).

If you are looking for a deeper understanding of how to build and start a business at lower cost and risk, I would recommend reading: "The $100 Startup" or "Side Hustle". Resources like these advocate finding markets through low cost, low risk attempts to find customer interest and build entrepreneurship skill.

While the furniture business may be viable, your lack of experience and the initial capital investment may make that a better business after you have more confidence in how you can build and develop.

Came here to say the exact same thing.

The Richest Man in Babylon is a 200 page book. It's a fictional story about a couple of different people and their financial situations. It's set way back in history.

There are 8 rules to becoming wealthy.

The Richest Man in Babylon

"the richest man in babylon"

Get the book.
The richest man of babylon. This helped me lots with refunding the loans.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Richest-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367/

And read through it all and apply.

Take $6.99, go to the bookstore, buy The Richest Man in Babylon.

Book recommendation for you: Disney Institute's Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service

I've heard very good things about this book: http://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/0684852861

This book is a very good one on the subject : One Simple Idea

Read One Simple Idea... it will tell you everything you need to know. I have read it myself because I am considering licensing something or trying to and it was extremely helpful.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318697547&sr=8-1

> "only votes matter"

It was never claimed, and the quotation marks are unjustified.

> complete bullshit

Spoken like a leader. Proof by profanity?

> make your own

Maybe consider taking your own advice? This whole schism could have been avoid by creating /r/serious_boardgames or something, rather than modifying an existing community.

> I'll continue working on curating /r/boardgames to be the best board game forum I can

Nobody doubts that. What is being doubted is your ability to make a good one.

> cause some people to be upset while they get used to them.


This is not how to lead effectively. This is known as bad management. Read a simple book on it like The One Minute Manager or many others, and you will learn that what you are doing is a textbook example of how to do things terribly, and that there are much better ways to lead people. Here's a hint: part of it involves listening to people.

This is something you should think deeply about, and take my thoughts with a grain of salt. You can start building your portfolio right now and surpass the skill level of all of the students in 1 year to their 4 years. If you are dedicated and you practice your craft, research, and really dig deep you can be hirable within a year. College is a huge waste of money and doesn't guarantee shit. I just finished reading this book which talks a lot on the subject and has influenced my opinion.

These are the books I've read recently and liked a lot:

• CA$HVERTISING: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone
  
• Write. Publish. Repeat. (The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success)
  
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
  
• The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late
  
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I am currently reading the book, "One Simple Idea", and it has sections on how to generate ideas. I highly recommend it.

I highly recommend this insight book for starters:

http://www.amazon.fr/The-Richest-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367

[Raving Fans] (http://www.amazon.com/Raving-Fans-Revolutionary-Approach-Customer/dp/0688123163) by Ken Blanchard is pretty good. The One Minute Manager by the same author is also worth a read. Nothing groundbreaking, but interesting nonetheless.

read the book "the education of millionares" i think it would help you.

One Simple Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259589676/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_W-NQCbB252MCA

I recommend reading this book.The One Minute Manager;Kenneth H. Blanchard.

https://www.amazon.com/The-One-Minute-Manager/dp/0688014291/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1481414800&sr=8-2&keywords=one-minute+manager

You may want to check out One Simple Idea by Stephen Key. Perhaps you can create a prototype and license your idea to a large company so you don't have to build out distribution yourself.

ever read the 1 minute manager series?

https://www.amazon.com/New-One-Minute-Manager/dp/0062367544/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2WJQE87R7QGXRWYJPM2V

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basically, you build them up, correct them, and build them up. sandwich approach.

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What do your parents want you to do, long term? take over the business, or have your own career?

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I would think of yourself as a owner of the business, and I expect others to think of you as their eventual boss. vs co worker or just another employee.

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> Just what the heck is this shit?

professionalization... theres a good book about how the process convinces you to do things you would consider ridiculous or even contrary to your values

They recommended The One Minute Manager.

I traditional basic read would be The Richest Man in Babylon.
It is a collection of parables that lay down the basic ground work for what to do. It is not earth-shattering but helps with the basics.

If you want to answer this one seriously, this book has several exercises for finding your purpose in life, which may just work out for you. At $11, I think it's worth the risk.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI

The picture linked in my view has the cover of his book.

Edit:https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI

https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367?

From 1926. You can probably find versions floating around on the internet. I don't think it actually talks about tithing, though.

Read this book:

Read this book

One Minute Manager

probably not exactly what you're looking for, but http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Mind-Thomas-Stanley/dp/0740718584

There is a book on the topic that I am currently reading myself: One Simple Idea

12 years old, but I think it would still apply: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth by Ric Edelman. Also, Automatic Millionaire by David Bach

https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857

http://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367/

Changed.

My.

Life.

The One Minute Manager

You should also add this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372953575&sr=8-1&keywords=disciplined+minds

For me it all started with checking out The Automatic Millionaire from the library. Started reading more library books about personal finance, and then snowballed from there.

Not sure what angle on leadership you’re looking for, but The One-Minute Manager is short enough that even if that doesn’t suit you, you haven’t wasted much time on it. It’s a perennial favorite in the “business leadership” category.

Yes, study your ass off on management. If you can get out to a bookstore this weekend, go pick up either the Successful Manager's Handbook or The One-Minute Manager so you can study up on management techniques and be able to give some specifics to questions.

These might be available as e-books; I didn't check.

Back when I was contemplating the idea of moving up (I'd rather drink bleach), I purchased this book that gives you a number of tips on how to professionally suck the excrement out of management's ass. Our entire western society is built on the hierarchical system where your self worth is commodified, meaning unless you know the rules of the game you're never going to climb the corporate ladder.

Hope this helps you get to where you want to go.

http://www.amazon.com/Who-Gets-Promoted-Doesnt-Second/dp/160774600X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458908740&sr=8-1&keywords=who+gets+promoted+and+who+doesn%27t

I can relate to this a lot, I love philosophy and I jump around different clicks all the time.

To keep it short I went on a goal setting course set up by my employer and so many things popped up that made me realise I don't achieve anything because I don't set out to achieve anything.

If you have a sat nav that couldn't tell you where you are and you didn't know where you want to go it may have all the maps in the world but its useless.

Take half an hour out and actually write down where you are now and where you want to be and what's you need to do to get there.

Start 2016 off with a goal a month and stick to it, the only person stopping you achieving it is yourself!


Edit: Actually, heres a simple book to read, its only 52 pages and can be read in a day, it should help you kick start your planning! http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/142212312X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=142212312X&linkCode=as2&tag=finafreebefof-21

Put it on some words is very difficult I suggest you read Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and all the Robert Kiyosaki's books.