THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE, PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH

There is a reason for such a title,  we expect to be told everything in school, till this day most people will base their inability to think on the school they went to rather than their experience and inability to recognize an opportunity.  Most people who have made it or are on the way to making it took advantage of opportunities that came their way or created opportunities for themselves. Sometimes when there are no opportunities available.  I will mention a few names in the course of this article.   The way we think makes a very big difference in how we act and perceive a lot of things.

Like most of my articles in recent times this will be a  short article but very thought-provoking,  I wonder why we think that because certain things are not taught in our schools, that equates to us not succeeding in our endeavors, ask any business owner will tell you, they prefer experience over degrees, they prefer people with the ability to complete a certain task rather than them wasting money to show them around. Businessmen will rather hire people who can think on their feet rather than ask for thought assistance every minute.

Let us begin,  the first question we should be asking is, what practical knowledge do we possess? Most of the knowledge we possess isn’t practical,  because more often than not we like to or should I say we love history but don’t make use of it,  This is what I mean….

Take someone like Reginald F Lewis, Most people of today couldn’t tell you who he is or was.  but he was the first black man to build a Billion dollar business, it wasn’t being done before him, note that I said the first black man/person to build a billion-dollar business, I never said the first black billionaire.  I think everyone should read about this man, and then see how he was able to do something that was unheard of at that time, sadly people like him are not with us anymore.

Bernard S Garret SR,  was the first black man/person to own a bank and was actually controlling white banks, this is a man with an 11th-grade education, and more importantly, he did it in the era of Jim crow, yet he was able to outsmart people who were college-educated, he was one of the wealthiest black men of his time.  He had a partner in a business called Joseph B Morris who was already a successful businessman.  Bernard S Garret was very good at math and we know as engineers and mathematicians, problem-solving skills are a must, so he looked at what was against him and said hmmm how do I solve this?   He did it, and it is because of him certain laws were changed, brothers and sisters, most of the time we ask what can be done for us when life is all about figuring out how to solve certain problems.

Before I end this who remembers thriller by Michael Jackson,  well fun fact, in the 80s black people were not given fair play on MTV, he came up with a video that was so good, that they had no choice but to show it on MTV,  you know you created something when white children gathered around their TV to watch Thriller,  The difference between these people and us today is that they didn’t know “it” couldn’t be done!

“The only time a man is really rich is when he controls money”- Bernard S Garret SR

By Anthony Mills and Jesus Kotei