Bloody Minds Around us

Bloody Minds Around us
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The Business World
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What School Did Not Teach You About Business
By: Titus Mirieri

Your Brain Is Your Certificate

“Education is a private matter between the world of knowledge and experience, and has
nothing to do with school or college.” Lillian Smith
Are you surprised?
Education has nothing to do with school? Is this man crazy?
Well, he was just being blunt. We were raised to believe that school is the source of education.
It's a LIE!

School makes children to love and believe in B.sc, PhD, etc. So many people even define education as certificate.

Haven't you met such people before? I know one man, who cannot speak correct English for five minutes yet, he's always proud of being “educated” that he always say it in public.

There are so many people like that. Why do they think they are educated, anyway?

Because they attended University, College, Polytechnic etc., and they have B.sc Hnd, you know. Education doesn't have anything to do with certificate. It has everything to do with your brain, your mind. Should we even find out the meaning of the word “education”?

Education is an English word which (according to some experts) originated from the
Latin word, ``educo`` Educo means, ``to develop from within``, to grow in mind, to have power.
Let us check dictionary.

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Dictionary.com defines education as follows; “The act or process of acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing
oneself”

Give me a minute. Please read the above definition again and write it down on your note.
Note the statements I underlined (in the above dictionary definition of education) – developing
the power of reasoning and generally of preparing oneself for life's journey.

Education, the true education, must prepare children for life. How I wish school prepares
people for the real world! Yet that is what education must do.
If school claims to be giving education–which means to prepare children for life, then
school is teaching children to seek good job (that is nowhere to be found), don't you see a contradiction here?

This is like, your father calls you on one Thursday morning and says, ``my son, there will
be a war very soon in this country and I want to prepare you for the battle``, then your father
starts teaching you how to fight with arrow and sword in 21 century.
How will you feel?
You might think something is wrong with your father. You will think your father is outdated. You will not take your father serious, will you?

Knowing how to fight with arrow and sword was a great thing in 14/15 century. But not
again because life has become more sophisticated.
I want you to get me right.
What school is teaching was very good. Going to the university and having good grade
was enough to make you rich (or at least make you live conveniently) some 50 years ago–not
now.

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What was good–is no more good–because life has changed (I'll discuss this fully as we
move on).
Let's check the dictionary verb meaning of the word education. Dictionary.com defines
“educate” (which is the verb form of the word education) as; “To develop the faculties and
powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction or schooling”
Oh my God! Will you please read the above definition again? To develop the faculties
(plural) and powers (plural) of a person– that's education.
An educated man is not a man who studied physics in the universities. An educated
woman is not that woman who studied Accounting in the polytechnic.
An educated person is that man/woman who has developed his/her faculties (plural), his
mind, and who has possessed power to get whatever he/she needs in life (in a legal way). An
educated person is a powerful person.
Now you can see, if truly our universities and colleges give education, multitudes of
graduates will not be unemployed as it is in our country today.
Because they would have been prepared and given power to create their desired lives in
the real world. With the above points, you now see what a learning must contain before it will be
called “education”.
It must develop mind (in the right way, not as a father who is teaching his son how to
fight with arrow in 21 century)
It must give power (the courage, strength and wisdom to face life) “It must prepare
children for the real world”.
Pay attention to the following sentence.

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Education is the transition of wisdom from an older (or wiser) person to the young generation.

Tell me, why do we depend on the older people to teach us something? Why do we take
time to listen to the wiser people?
It`s because we trust them that they know more than us. Because we want them to teach
us from their experiences.
Now let me ask you, why do lecturers in the universities, after knowing the truth that no
good job out there anymore yet, continue teaching students how to get good job?
Why do governments, having the alarming statistics of unemployment yet, allow children
to continue learning how to get jobs?
I am angry! I am furious! I am feeling as if I should kill somebody– Mrs. School.
People who we trusted (when we were children) to give us education have failed to give
us the right one.
They are our fathers. They promised to teach us how to fight in the battle. Unfortunately,
they trained us to use the outdated weapons– arrows and swords. We deserve their apology.
When I was in campus, many people believed that I was a genius, because I was the only
person who got a first class out of about 547 students of my level.
But wait!
I never collected that "wonderful" certificate from school. Am I crazy? Maybe.

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But you see, I have realized early in life that my certificate is my brain, my mind. I work
extremely hard to build my mind.
I have read hundreds of books about; Money, Business, Leadership, Human Relationship,
Negotiation, Sales, Marketing– and just any success related title.
Then about Marriage, God and spirituality. Just to build my mind up for success. At a
point in my life, I felt so much loaded that I said to myself, ``nothing on Earth can make me
poor`` Nothing– not bad government, not bad economy, NOTHING! Not even if someone
throws me to an unknown country where I cannot speak their language.
When you get to that point in your life, you know you have built a wonderful mind.
School makes children to believe that good certificate will make them rich and successful.
It is a white lie. That could be in 19century. In 21 century?
Your mind determines your success. Think about it!
Did Dangote become the richest African because he is a professor? Is Johann Rupert a
PhD holder to become the richest man in South Africa? Does Bill Gates have any certificate?
Did Mark Zuckerberg (who founded Facebook) finish school?
Then, how did they get to be rich and successful? Behind all these men and other
successful people, are well built minds, well prepared for riches and success.
Let me quote George Santayana: “A child educated only at school is an uneducated
child.”
What does that mean? It means if all you know (about money, life and success) is what
school taught you, then you know nothing, nothing at all. I'm sorry if my tone is too harsh! Let's
ask ourselves, if certificates really matter in life, why are most professors poor and they keep on
holding strikes demanding for pay rise?

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Don't you know that many Lawyers and Doctors are now earning as low as (Ksh.70,000)
$700 a month? And they are the most learned people in Kenya.
That is not up to what some break-layers earn. Then, who can prove the golden worth of
certificate in 21 century?
Certificate may earn you big name (B.sc, M.se, Pd.D., Prof. etc). It can also earn you (a
living) what to eat and drink, but only your mind will earn you riches.
How do you have a mind that makes you rich? Sorry, nobody has it. Everybody builds it.
How do you build such a wealth attracting mind? Just as you build your body by eating
food, you build your mind by reading books and being open minded and ready to learn from
successful people.
When you eat well and exercise your body, you`ll become healthier. When you read good
books, learn from others and attend training seminars, you become smarter, wiser and eventually
richer. Read less of sport news, start reading financial books.
Reduce your hours on movies and games, start reading good books. Watch less of
football matches– you need to read some good financial books.
Sit down today and fish out two-six hours out of your hours a week. Use this period to
read good financial books and business articles.
There are thousands of good motivational/financial books out there. If you never knew
any library or bookstore near you, ask and ask. Borrow or buy.
Read, read and read financial books. Read motivational books, wonderful books soon
you'll have a mind that attracts wealth.

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Your environment will gradually turn to green. You know what that means? You will
start seeing business/wealth opportunities you never saw before. You will become loaded and
unstoppable.
This works, no matter what your current financial situation is, believe me! Never forget
this words from Isaac Asimov: “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education
there is.”
If for any reason you cannot educate yourself, you're an illiterate, even if you have a PhD.
As I am writing these words to you, I have acquired knowledge from over 750 business
and financial related books and probably over 200 other non-financial books. That`s what makes
me. I don`t care about my certificate. I care about my mind.
Education does not have anything to do with certificate or school, it is your mind that
makes you rich.
You have to build that mind of yours by feeding it with the right knowledge through
readings of good books, magazines and articles.

You still ARE

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't...you're right.”

by Henry Ford

When a child is born, he is like water. He is pure and neutral. He doesn't know anything and he is open to any influence from anywhere.

This child can be trained to be good, and he can be trained to be bad.

He could be trained to be kind; and he could be trained to be violent. This child could be

trained to be godly, and in fact some terrorists give birth to many children with the sole aim of

training them to continue terrorism after them.

As an innocent child could be trained with good or evil virtues, so can he be encouraged

or brainwashed about the profession he should choose. So many of us were purely brainwashed.

We were told often by our parents and teachers that the best way to life is to be a doctor,

engineer, banker or any big company worker.

Not our parents alone.

The movies, the music, the television– all work against us to set our minds on what they assume is the best – being an employee.

Did you ever see a man telling his son,

`”My son, as you are growing up, the best you can

do with your life is to be an entrepreneur. You Can. Dangote did it. Chris Kirubi did it. You can do it” Ever heard a statement like that from a father?

In the real sense, nobody ever believed in us to be entrepreneurs. Nobody ever

encouraged us. No one ever even told us we should.

A mere expression of faith in us (by our parents) would have inspired many of us to be

entrepreneurs. But what were your parents telling you when you were young?

They told you how sweet it will be, for you to get good grade and good job.

Do you know that if you have 10 children (just for instance), and you always tell these

children; “My children, being a business owner is more profitable and rewarding than being an

employee”, “My children, you have everything it takes to build the richest company in Africa”,

“My children, see, Chris Kirubi was just a boy like you when he started, you too can start and

succeed” etc.

Even if you don't know anything about business, you are giving your children a dream to

pursue.

They will nurture the entrepreneurial dream in their hearts, and we will not be surprised if

eventually 3 or 4 of your 10 children end up being successful business people. What am I saying

here?

A mere insight and encouragement from people who are older than us about

entrepreneurship would have helped our country and continent to be better. You and I know,

don`t we? Wherever you see someone who believes in you, you tend to believe much more in

yourself.

I remember as a little child. I was a sickly boy (because I was born with a strange

genotype, SC). I would fall sick many times in a year. Everybody stigmatized me. But my mother would draw me near herself and tell me, “My son, you are very brilliant and beautiful”

As a boy, I always believe that I was brilliant. At a time when I was performing poorly in

school, my father said, “he is brilliant, but too playful”. I stopped being playful. At age 14/15,

when i was in high school, I started reading at night. I stopped wasting time watching football

and movie (and never since then love them anymore).

I had one of the most outstanding performances all my school days. Do you think I am brilliant more than my mates? I don't really think so. The difference I could see is that I had

someone near me to tell me,

“Titus, you can”.

Those period, even when I was a sickly boy and everybody saw me as a disadvantaged

boy, I always remember the words of my mother.

I believed I was brilliant. Though my mates called me ugly, I believed I was handsome. I

ended up being very brilliant and just as you can see in my photograph, I am a handsome man

now. Lol.

I tell you again; if as children we had someone to enlighten us, and to encourage us about

entrepreneurship, many of us would today be employing 50, 100 or 1000 people.

Think about Jews people; the Israelites. They are only 2% of the US population, yet, they

are 25% of the top richest Americans.

Of the recent list of 1,426 Forbes lists of the richest men, Jews alone boasts of 17 people.

Think about the Jews that are ruling the world.

Do you know Mark Zuckerberg who founded Facebook? He is a Jew. Do you know Paul

Allen who founded Microsoft together with Bill Gates? He is a Jew. Do you know Michael Dell

who owns Dell Computer? He is a Jew. Do you know Sergey Brin and Larry Page Who founded

Google? They are Jews.

There are so many Jews like that at virtually every field of human Endeavour, taking lead

and succeeding. But why is it so? Are Jews smarter than the rest of us? Do they have different

brains or opportunities? I bet no.

In fact, they are probably the most disadvantaged in the world because they have suffered

from wars and oppositions than any other single nation on earth.

Jews are always in battle with this or that nation, right from the days of their forefathers.

They are unrest. They are not at peace. But they are great. Why?

Because an average Jew is trained to create his world, himself. They are focused on being

creative and creating opportunities.

Independence is the watch world many of them run after.

What point am I making here?

You can be an entrepreneur; just as you can be an accountant, a lawyer or tailor, and the

only reason why you are not an entrepreneur is because nobody had ever told you that you can.

That by the way is not your fault. You chose the path you are right now, not because that

is the easiest path. You chose that path just because that was what you were trained to choose.

School teaches that the best you can do with your life is to get a good job in a good company.

Bullshit!

School encourages us to look up, instead of teaching us how to grow up. School teaches

us how to get fish from a boss, not how to catch fish ourselves.

I hate school for that. What about you? Read the following quotation thoughtfully: “I

believe that school makes complete fools of our young men…” - Petronius (Satyricon).

Read the above quotation again. You may not write it down, but think deeply about it.

School makes complete fools of our young men.

How?

School made fools of us by teaching us that it is better we work for the rich than to be

rich. School never taught us how to build our own businesses, instead, how to help others make

their business succeed.

Do you ever ask yourself, why does school teaches every child to seek job? By the time

every child loves job, who will create job? That is what is happening in Kenya and all over the

world today.

Imagine a country that produces thousands of graduates every year.

If you interview these thousands of young adults about their dream, (except very few)

they will tell you that they would love to get a "good job".

If all of our youths are trained to love to be employees, who will be the employer? The

last time I asked someone this question, his answer was something like, “some people will.”

Do we need a prophet to tell us the reason for the massive unemployment? Do we need a

genius to analyze this?

Let me tell you this truth. There is no meaningful reason why we should have more

Medical Doctors than we have successful entrepreneurs.

There is no genuine reason for our continent not to have, multiply by 5, of the number of

the scientists as entrepreneurs.

Tell me, do you think it is harder to be an entrepreneur than to be a soldier? Yet, we have

thousands of young men and women in Kenya bribing every year to be soldiers. So, why are

there few successful entrepreneurs in Kenya?

Orientation.

Young people are wrongly oriented – by the school, television and the society. If you

observe diligently, you will find that most of the successful business owners are not product of

formal school.

They are men/women who disagreed with school.

Instead of waiting for job, they choose to create it, for themselves and for others. I

studied Accounting, at the University of Nairobi, School of business. For years, I was learning

how to calculate money.

How do I make money? No teacher taught me. Isn't that foolish?

Then why should i love school, I hate school.

Why will you be teaching me how to calculate millions, yet never taught me how to start

my own company and make millions? If you'll believe me, I will tell you the truth.

Othman Benjelloun, the richest man in Morocco is not in any way better than you! Chris

Kirubi, a billionaire Kenyan or Bill Gates, are not luckier than you.

They only got different orientation.

They were orientated that they could be entrepreneurs while you were orientated to be

employee.

Chris Kirubi was born poorer than most of us. In fact, he was once a taxi driver and a

security guard. You are where you are because that is the orientation you got.

If you change your orientation, you can change your life. Tell yourself, I can be an

entrepreneur. This seems too simple to follow, but the truth is, we are who we believe we are.

Anyone who believes he/she is having what it takes to run his business, though he has

nothing yet, he will end up having the strength and the resources needed. Belief is powerful!

Mahatma Gandhi said, "Man often becomes what he believes himself to be."

Check out any great thing anyone has ever achieved. Belief comes first, not resources.

Henry Ford never knew how a car would look like yet, he believed he would design one.

Hillary believed he would climb the tallest mountain, Mount Everest, even when no one

has ever succeeded trying it.

Did Nigerian 30 years old Isaac Durojaiye first believe or first saw resources to start the

first mobile toilet manufacturing company in Africa? He first believed, then, his belief made it

possible for him to get resources.

“It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are" – Karen Marie.

The person you are today is the product of what you chose to believe few years ago. If

you had believed something else, you would have pursued something else and become

something else.

Now is the time to start believing that you can be an entrepreneur.

That is the first step, as i have shown you in this chapter. Capital isn't the first thing;

resources aren't the first thing – but believing you can.

Through this chapter, i have been able to convince you that you can be a successful

entrepreneur.

Nothing, absolutely nothing is wrong with you. You have everything it takes to succeed

as a business owner.

You Can!

Yes, you can! The reason why you may be unemployed or an unhappy employee today is

because you were never oriented or taught how to be a business owner.

You were never enlighten or encouraged.

Now you have met with me and I am here to encourage and teach you the road to

business success. This book is the first step. It`s written with the purpose of showing you the

hidden truth about the 21 century world and to inspire you to be in charge of your life… to be a

business owner.

As noted above, this book alone is sufficient to set so many people free. I mean, the truth

in this book alone is enough to liberate many people in our world today.

In fact, after reading this book, a woman by the name Mrs. Bassey advised me to get

copies of it across all the university and college students, so as to liberate their mind and set their

vision straight, from the early age.

That`s it. This book alone is enough to get you to the world and create your life with your

mind.

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