Selfishly much of what I do is so that my kids have a roadmap for their life.
I would rather they start on first second, or if I’m lucky, third base as they become adults and start fending for themselves.
Even at a young age children can learn amazing things. Far more than formal schooling or “experts” let on.
Things like;
“Life isn’t fair,” but “from great chaos comes great order and opportunity.”
Simple math and reading.
Understand that money is value that is stored in a finite object that cannot be taken from you created when someone provides a good or service. It doesn’t come from the government.
Your rights are guaranteed by your creator and are inherent to man. They do not come from the government.
Critical thinking
Goal setting
Discipline
Mindset
Risk management
Situational awareness
What is money?
Basic philosophy
Human psychology
Basic history and geography
Human achievement and success
Minimize cognitive dissonance
Check biases
Be able to hold two opposing opinions in head at same time
Ad hominem
Straw man/Steel man
Low time preference vs. High time preference
All things we should have been taught in school but was conspicuously absent…
Recently we touched on John D. Rockefeller and the general board of education and his desire to “produce workers, not thinkers” starting in 1902.
Dare I say we may have found our answer?
Over the years, I’ve argued with many people who didn’t have the same beliefs.
I have had heated debates with professors, teachers, family members, etc..
For 35 years I have been puzzled as to why common sense is not common.
I don’t begin to think that I have common sense.
I’m on a daily journey, trying to find it and study it and have been baffled as to why its such a mystery to formal education.
Maybe much of it is due to the fact that we have things so easy now?
Maybe its more of a sinister plan as we highlighted in the article this past week with Rockefeller?
I realize now as I am older that it’s all your layers of experience, teaching, reading, and study that create who you are.
I understand that not everyone has had my same life experiences or put in the same study that I have.
So, I thought it would be important to share my frameworks with my children so they don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
This difference in experience and lessons is what causes much of the dissension in society.
Why do some people constantly seem to make the correct decisions while some seem to always fall further behind?
My conclusion at this point is because many operate off of a false framework or have built their house off of sand.
The Bible tells us that the wise man built his house off of rock.
My interpretation of that is sound logical, critical, thinking, based in nature’s law and first principles.
Where is this going?
I will have much more of this in the future along with books that will be coming out this year for children to start understanding the basic frameworks of first principles and nature’s law.
It will be simple enough for a child to understand and meaty enough for an adult to learn as well.
This is by no means a comprehensive list but some of the things I feel are important to share here today.
I hope my children at the very least will get something out of my work.
If you have any thoughts or any ideas of things you would like researched and shared please let me know?
Stay strong,