| Consider this. Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford | | | | knowing what defeat looks like, is exactly what we |
| Motor Company, never graduated from college. But | | | | are led to believe gave us the V8 engine. The fabled |
| history proves he certainly knew how to create | | | | story goes something to the effect that every time his |
| wealth. He was like the Bill Gates of his day. Now, Bill | | | | engineers came and told him what he wanted was |
| Gates has Aspergers syndrome (a mild form of | | | | impossible he simply kept repeating himself by saying |
| Autisim) but that never stopped him from achieving | | | | build it anyway. |
| massive wealth creation either. | | | | I want it and I'll have it. Did he earn more by learning |
| So, is it true the more you learn the more you earn? I | | | | more? No. he simply hired a whole hoard of people |
| don't think so but then I am not one to run around | | | | who knew everything he didn't, gave them a problem |
| espousing non truths either. In my humble opinion | | | | and waited for them to come up with the solution. |
| people do need to learn to earn, yes, and learn to | | | | Now we have no idea how much money he threw at |
| create wealth. But they don't need to learn reams and | | | | the problems associated with design, and then |
| reams of stuff just in order to make a reasonable | | | | subsequent manufacture, but we do know one thing. |
| living. What is required, as far as I am aware, is an | | | | He knew he would not give up until he met with |
| in-depth knowledge on one thing, and maybe a just a | | | | success. So, if we are to take a leaf out of Henry's |
| light smattering of some other things. | | | | book this is what we come up with. We don't have to |
| You see, Henry was good at what he did. It wasn't | | | | learn more to earn more. We just have to know what |
| building cars but he was good at quite a few other | | | | we want and then be able to figure out a way of |
| things. Like knowing how to leverage the knowledge in | | | | getting it. And not give up until we do. No matter what |
| other peoples heads. And he was good at not giving | | | | your goal, if history shows us one thing, it is this. |
| up. This last thing he was good at, which is not | | | | |