The System of Life

I am someone who love’s reading books on self-development and how to become successful and wealthy. Whilst reading “Rich dad, Poor dad” by Robert Kiyosaki and watching U-stream’s by Shanel Cooper-Sykes it opened my mind to “the system” that we are all part of whether knowingly or unknowingly.

What is “the system”?

From childhood many of us are taught that we should do well in school and aim for high grades which will enable us to enter further education. From A UK educational system this would be attaining high GCSE’s proceeded by A level’s and then progressing into University to obtain a degree so that in the end we can get a  “good” secure job that pays well. This system is ingrained in many of us and many people follow this because it is seen as the norm in society and the ‘right’ thing to do

People who do not do very well in school or those that choose not to go to university are sometimes told that they can never be “successful” or amount to anything in life.  This is because the mentality of most people is that academic education = success which is not entirely true.

Those who do have academic qualifications usually end up working for a big successful company for most of their lives which means they are always working for someone (the company owner’s). This primarily benefits company owners because they are becoming even richer; thus re-enforcing the cycle of ‘the rich getting richer’ even if the workers are well paid. From a Marxist theoretical point of view this will be viewed as the ruling class (the rich) exploiting the lower classes to maintain the status quo.

The education system does not teach people HOW to create wealth but instead aides in the mentality of having to work for someone else instead of working for yourself. From reading many books by successful wealthy people the common thing they all mention about creating wealth is to be creative and to have the right mentality about money. It is important to be educated about money, businesses, investments, assets etc. These are the things we are not taught in schools. I’m going to expand upon this on a later post but in the mean time useful books to read about the creation of wealth are: 'Think and Grow Rich' – Napolean Hill, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' - Robert Kiyosaki, 'Secret’s of A Millionaire Mind' – T. Harv Eker

Written by Dinah