My son would like to study international business, he is a born leader and negotiator. I recently recommended that he read “The 4-Hour Workweek. I encouraged him by reading a paragraph in which the author, Timothy Ferris, shared his first minimum wage work experience.”

Later that day, I called my son into the kitchen to help me with dinner, as I often do. I asked him to help me peel the potatoes, only this time, I cut the potatoes into large chunks first. He looked at me questioningly. Why wouldn’t he have asked her to peel the potato first? I replied, therein lies the difference between the 4-hour workweek and the 40-hour workweek. He smiled and happily returned to his precious free time that he had only just begun to appreciate, having left the alternative educational setting and joining the mainstream school system.

I hope you take the courses offered at your International Business school. It is an accredited program and yet I have a feeling that much of what will be taught is based on past success. While it is true that there are certain psychological triggers that will always be effective in persuasive writing, I think there are also new ways of doing business that are only now coming to the forefront of today’s reality … “past performance does not guarantee future success … “

As a student of life, I am continually expanding my horizons and that is why I will share with him the books that have most recently expanded mine:

o Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and the Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki

o Secrets of the millionaire mind by T. Harv Eker

o Timothy Ferris’ 4-hour workweek

And the most mind-boggling = one of all, I’ll save it until some day, after I’ve experienced the minimum wage and its various forms of lack and limitation: Breaking the loose money game by Robert Scheinfeld.

Okay, you’ve already been exposed to:

o The science of getting rich

o The magic of faith

o Spiritual Marketing

o As a man thinks

All the classics in their own right … these are the building blocks … perhaps more important than much of what will be taught in any high school business class.