Valuing education Over entertainment unlocks wealth

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Friends, the most wealthy and successful people in this world value education. They have invested themselves immensely in personal education. Its really true that readers are always leaders. Please note that by personal education I don’t mean the academic kind that earns you qualifications. No! Academic education is good because it gives you qualifications, but the kind of education am talking about is being able to absorb relevant information that makes you a captain and an expert in your industry or field. Friends realize that very successful people are as excited about education as most of us are about entertainment. Put in another way, successful people pursue education with the same voracious passion with which most of us pursue entertainment. For the successful, information about their industry is always fresh, relevant and applicable. To be successful, you must know it all in your field. You must be at masters degree level not in terms of a paper but in terms of practical ready to use, updated information all the time in your field. Without relevant information, you readily become irrelevant.

So friends, make sure that you are consuming relevant information in your field like you do food. Put yourself on a heavy and disciplined diet of information. Chunk up and chew up that data voraciously, the way a drug addict would in their addiction. Sounds…