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What I Didn't Learn at School but Wish I Had
This book is about more than just a rags to riches story of how a young Australian went from sleeping on a friend’s couch, $150,000 in debt, no job or future prospects, to becoming a self-made millionaire while still in his 20s. It’s about something much more powerful and unique that he had to discover in order to excel in the game of life in the 21st Century. That “something” was a 21st Century Educational System.
In this book, Jamie lays the foundation for success with a blueprint of the same educational system he used to transform his life from broke to millionaire in less than five years. Unfortunately, you cannot learn this at school or university, and without it your chances of excelling in the 21st Century are remote. More than 250,000 people worldwide have been exposed to the 21st Century Education already, transforming their lives as a result of its knowledge and strategies. Now it’s your turn to discover this unique system that is not only creating millionaires, but is transforming peoples happiness and fulfillment as well.
In this book, Jamie lays the foundation for success with a blueprint of the same educational system he used to transform his life from broke to millionaire in less than five years. Unfortunately, you cannot learn this at school or university, and without it your chances of excelling in the 21st Century are remote. More than 250,000 people worldwide have been exposed to the 21st Century Education already, transforming their lives as a result of its knowledge and strategies. Now it’s your turn to discover this unique system that is not only creating millionaires, but is transforming peoples happiness and fulfillment as well.
304 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2004
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November 25, 2019
McIntyre has been in the headlines over the years for bankruptcy, scamming vulnerable people, conflicts with neighbours, etc. The book itself reads at an uneducated level with obvious advertising included. Definitely not recommended. I found this book on a local book-trading shelf and thought it would include Australia-specific investing advice. Instead, the first part of the book denigrates the current education system, complete with grammatical errors and inconsistencies. The last part of the books gives only the briefest of introductions to options trading on margin and borrowing heavily to finance real estate purchases - all with no mention of interest rates and associated fees. Utter rubbish. This one will be going into the bin.
August 21, 2019
A good collection of Tony Robbin’s ideas, in a form copied from Robert Kiyosaki, which range across new age and pop psychology sources.
McIntyre presents basic pop libertarian ideas, such as a distrust of fractional reserve banking, and a sense of strong patriotism. The economics is particularly dismaying; he suggests Australia pay for other countries foreign debts with a new tax.
His curriculum, the 21st-century curriculum, is mostly a vehicle for his educational seminars. It consists of five elements on page 44. These are emotional intelligence, financial intelligence, basic business skills, RPA (which is Anthony Robbins’ form of time management standing for results purpose action,) and life design.
Emotionally, he suggests make two lists of what drains and what excites you emotionally, brainstorm on the nature of money to unearth negative beliefs, and then reflect on that, and discover your purpose by writing about what you want and do not want and imagining your funeral orations.
Page 107 he gives Anthony Robbins’ two affirmations one he uses before going on stage and one for creating wealth. Apparently the author uses Robbins affirmations.
He suggests creating goals that are SMARTIEs - specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, tangible, inspirational, and emotional. Good idea.
He suggests eight steps to become a millionaire: they are, saving, sell something, tax minimisation, increase income through basic business skills creative thinking communicating marketing and the go shading, using other people’s money, using equity, using parents equity, and maximising superannuation.
His accountant then writes a chapter presenting different ways to buy shell or rent shares. And we have another chapter on real estate.
I have a lower opinion of this book now that I’ve studied economics. It’s mostly Tony Robbins, mindset, and share trading tactics.
McIntyre presents basic pop libertarian ideas, such as a distrust of fractional reserve banking, and a sense of strong patriotism. The economics is particularly dismaying; he suggests Australia pay for other countries foreign debts with a new tax.
His curriculum, the 21st-century curriculum, is mostly a vehicle for his educational seminars. It consists of five elements on page 44. These are emotional intelligence, financial intelligence, basic business skills, RPA (which is Anthony Robbins’ form of time management standing for results purpose action,) and life design.
Emotionally, he suggests make two lists of what drains and what excites you emotionally, brainstorm on the nature of money to unearth negative beliefs, and then reflect on that, and discover your purpose by writing about what you want and do not want and imagining your funeral orations.
Page 107 he gives Anthony Robbins’ two affirmations one he uses before going on stage and one for creating wealth. Apparently the author uses Robbins affirmations.
He suggests creating goals that are SMARTIEs - specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, tangible, inspirational, and emotional. Good idea.
He suggests eight steps to become a millionaire: they are, saving, sell something, tax minimisation, increase income through basic business skills creative thinking communicating marketing and the go shading, using other people’s money, using equity, using parents equity, and maximising superannuation.
His accountant then writes a chapter presenting different ways to buy shell or rent shares. And we have another chapter on real estate.
I have a lower opinion of this book now that I’ve studied economics. It’s mostly Tony Robbins, mindset, and share trading tactics.
August 24, 2016
Giving this one 3.5 stars. Overall, I'd recommend it to almost anyone however would make sure they understand the pro's and con's first.
Pros:
- Book holds true to its title. There is a TON of information here that doesn't get taught in the Australian school system (public at least) that makes the book worth reading in its own right.
- Decent case studies, examples and charts to help absorb the information.
- Broken into chapters - you could easily pick and choose what you want to learn vs. having to read the 400+ pages if you wanted to.
Cons:
- Some of the pages waffle on and repeat themselves.
- The book is riddled with punctuation and grammar issues. There aren't a HUGE amount of them but definitely enough to be noticed. This bothered me given that the book is geared around towards "success" and being sloppy != success.
- I understand the purpose of the chapter about "A Day in My Life"; to help "paint the picture" of what life could be and whilst it can create a solid visual representation of what's possible, I found it to be pretty "wanky" and somewhat un-necessary. "I woke up today and drove my FERRARI from my apartment directly facing the BEACH" etc.
Pros:
- Book holds true to its title. There is a TON of information here that doesn't get taught in the Australian school system (public at least) that makes the book worth reading in its own right.
- Decent case studies, examples and charts to help absorb the information.
- Broken into chapters - you could easily pick and choose what you want to learn vs. having to read the 400+ pages if you wanted to.
Cons:
- Some of the pages waffle on and repeat themselves.
- The book is riddled with punctuation and grammar issues. There aren't a HUGE amount of them but definitely enough to be noticed. This bothered me given that the book is geared around towards "success" and being sloppy != success.
- I understand the purpose of the chapter about "A Day in My Life"; to help "paint the picture" of what life could be and whilst it can create a solid visual representation of what's possible, I found it to be pretty "wanky" and somewhat un-necessary. "I woke up today and drove my FERRARI from my apartment directly facing the BEACH" etc.
March 13, 2009
I had a lightning bolt moment reading chapter 14
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October 9, 2012Its enlightening and opens the horizon for dreamers.
September 14, 2014
Another great book by the author on financial smarts. It was useful.
December 3, 2019
Read this book after delaying it from Year 6. Mindset is everything.
June 25, 2016
Probably one of those books that could be on the "must read for strategy consultants" lists. It will help mature your team thinking skills, and help to explain the process of consulting. Very useful.
August 29, 2016
Pretty good book. Covered a lot of the basics. If I ever try my hand at real estate, this may be something I want to reference along the way.
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November 22, 2018once have this manual ....awesome
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