Coffee n Talk | Fahrenheit, Cash Machine, Homeschool

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You can try it for just one dollar. EffortlessEnglishClub.com. Coffee and talk today... Beautiful day in Japan. Beautiful day. Summer day. 79 degrees Fahrenheit.

I'm going to teach you about Fahrenheit today. Most of the world for temperature uses Celsius. So you probably know Celsius. And so I know that it can be hard when you're hearing the other system because...

You know in Celsius, you know what temperature means hot. You know 40 is really hot, and 30 is warm, and 20 is getting cooler, and teens is cool, and under 10 is starting to get chilly and cold.

But Fahrenheit, when you hear Fahrenheit, maybe you visit the United States, and the temperatures are listed in Fahrenheit, and you're doing your research, and you see, ah, in San Francisco, it's going to be 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

Is that warm? Is that hot? Is that cold? What is that? I'll teach you an easy way to remember this. I'm only going to teach you some of it right now, because it's summer, so I'll teach you the summer temperatures right now, and then I'll teach you winter temperatures later.

So, here's my easy guide to Fahrenheit temperatures. Fahrenheit temperatures... in the normal range, in the usual range, is 0 to 100, 0 to 100. Now when it's really cold they can go negative, below zero, that's very cold.

And in a few places can go over 100, which is very very hot. But those are both very unusual. So only in the hottest places Will the temperature go over 100?

And only in the coldest places will it go below zero or the coldest times. Normal summertime temperatures in the United States are usually between 60 to just under 100, high 90s.

So let's talk about this. Let's just go through them. Anything in the 60s, any temperature in the 60s, 61, 65, 68 degrees, is what I would call cool. Cool.

It's not hot, not warm. Cool. Temperatures in the 60s, you probably need a light jacket. Like a light jacket, a long-sleeved shirt. It's not cold. You're still going to be comfortable, but probably long pants, maybe some jeans or long pants.

Truck going by. So maybe some long pants, long sleeve shirt, and a light jacket in the 60s. So 60s equals cool weather. Cool weather. Now you think, well, so some places at night in the summer might get into the 60s, might drop down to the 60s in the evening.

So you might need to wear a light jacket up in the north, northern states, far north. The other place you might get these temperatures are on the west coast. The west coast, some of the cities on the west coast of the United States have their own kind of strange weather, strange climate. It's different than the rest of the country.

San Francisco, for example. People are often surprised when they visit San Francisco that it gets kind of chilly, a little cool. Especially they're surprised when they visit in the middle of the summer and they imagine Los Angeles weather. It's what they see on TV, which can be very hot in the summer.

And they get to San Francisco and suddenly the fog comes from the ocean and it drops down to 60, 61 degrees and they have shorts and a t-shirt and they get cold.

So, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco. These can get down into the 60s in the summertime. Especially with fog from the ocean. 60s, cool, cool weather. Next, the 70s.

Temperatures in the 70s. Now the 70s for a lot of people would be the perfect temperature. 70 is just the 70s, you know, 74, 75 degrees, for example, is kind of the perfect temperature for most people, for human beings, probably.

Okay, so this is warm, but not too warm, right? A little bit cool and a little bit warm, just perfect. With temperatures in the 70s, you can wear shorts and a t-shirt or, you know, a short-sleeved shirt, but you're not hot.

It's really nice, 70s kind of perfect weather. In the winter in Hawaii, for example, you get a lot of temperatures in the 70s. In fact, Hawaii really has perfect weather all year.

Hawaiian weather is in the 70s and the 80s. basically all year. Perfect. So 70s we would call pleasant, perfect, a little warm, a tiny bit cool, just right.

So next we get the 80s. Temperatures in the 80s. 81, 82, 87, 88. Now in the 80s, it's very warm. Any temperature in the 80s, very warm. So it's starting to feel a little bit hot in the 80s, right?

Definitely wear shorts, t-shirts, that kind of weather. In the 80s, with temperatures in the 80s, you can go swimming. But it's also pleasant. You know, to most temperatures in the 80s,

It's still not like, you know, super hot. It's not like Florida in the summer or Georgia in the summer. It still feels pretty pleasant, right? So 70s and 80s are really that perfect weather spot.

70s a little cooler, really perfect. 80s starting to get kind of warm, but it's not terrible. And then finally we have temperatures in the 90s. Anything above 90 is hot.

90 degrees and higher is hot weather. Hot summer weather. You will be sweating. Don't wear heavy clothes. Don't wear lots of, you know, long sleeves and things if you can avoid it.

90s. That's hot weather. And especially if it's humid at the same time, if the air is kind of wet, 90s plus high humidity. That's Georgia, by the way, where I'm from.

Georgia summers, hot and humid. The temperatures are usually in the 90s through the summer. And it's very humid, very kind of wet air. Whew, that combination.

Now, personally, I like it. I'm used to it. Oh, hello. Hello. Konnichiwa. Thank you. Some guy walking by just said hello to me. Practicing his English a little.

So hot and humid. 90s. The 90s. Any temperatures in the 90s Fahrenheit? That's hot. That's hot summer weather. Okay, this is no longer pleasant. Right?

In the 80s, it still feels fairly pleasant. It's not so bad. But most people, when the temperatures get above 90, they start complaining, oh, it's hot. If you're out a lot, especially in the sun, and it's over 90 degrees, you will be sweating.

You will definitely be sweating. Thailand. Thailand, much of the time, is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit. And Thailand also is very humid, mostly. most of the time, so hot and humid, big combination.

Now in the United States, most of the United States in the summertime, in the middle of the summer, so June, July, August, you're getting, in the middle of the day, you will get temperatures usually in the 90s for most of the country. The middle of the country, the south, most of it is going to be hot in the 90s.

And then at night, nights are pretty nice, night, It'll drop down into the 80s. In some places it drops all the way down into the 70s at night. In the hot middle of the summer.

So there you go. There's your temperature guide to the American temperature system using Fahrenheit. So right now in Japan, by the way, I think it's 79 degrees today. 79.

So that's right in that perfect zone. I'm wearing shorts. I'm not sweating, though. It's perfect. Clear sky, a few little white clouds. It's great. I didn't do a video last night, a video show, but I will tonight.

I'll be talking about kind of an important topic, actually. So I hope you enjoy it. And then, of course, Saturday, we have our book club. Book club on Saturday.

Moving on to chapter two of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I want to give you like a big picture of financial freedom. It's something that Robert Kiyosaki talks about, many people talk about.

And it's sort of a big strategy way to look at this. This is long term, okay? This takes several years for most people to do what I'm describing. But to really become financially free.

A common path, you know, most people, most people start as employees. I did. That's what most people do. Why? Because that's what we're trained to do in schools.

You know, Schools are not really training us to be great thinkers. Definitely not. What they're doing is training us to be employees. And for most people, that's what they do their whole life.

But even people like me and others who become entrepreneurs, most, not all, but most, start as employees, and then they realize they don't like it, and then they have to teach themselves how to become entrepreneurs.

A few... A lucky few start off at a young age as entrepreneurs. Maybe their parents taught them. Maybe they just naturally always wanted to be entrepreneurs, and they just got out of school and they immediately started doing businesses.

So good for them. Good for them. But that was not me, and that's not most people. So the path to financial freedom for most people, you, me, and most,

is to start off as an employee, and then what do you do? It's very, very tough to be financially free as an employee. Just as an employee, it's very hard, right? You're getting a salary.

Your salary is fixed. Your salary or your hourly wage completely depends on you doing the work. If you don't work, you don't make any money. go on vacation, maybe you get two weeks, or if you're lucky you get four weeks or something, but otherwise you don't make any money.

So, to really be financially free, you've got to move into two things. Businesses and investing. Businesses and investing. Now, some people choose just one.

But I think the best path to financial freedom is actually to do both. And here's how it works. You create what I call a cash machine. A cash machine that has three parts or eventually just two parts.

So for most people, the first part, the first step is you have a job. You got some kind of job. You're working for someone else like normal people and you're getting your paycheck.

So how do you start getting free from that? So the first step is to, what I say, is to go to your baseline, cut your expenses as low as possible so that you have some extra money every month. This is the key. You've got to create somehow extra money so you can start doing other things.

Otherwise, you'll never be free. You'll never be free. You'll be trapped. You'll be a wage slave for your whole life if you can't create that gap, right?

So that your income is higher, hopefully much higher, than your expenses. That is the absolute first step. You've got to get your income higher than your expenses. And you want that gap as big as possible.

As big as possible. That gives you flexibility. That gives you choices. That opens opportunities. This is why it's so important, why I'm going to keep talking about this idea of cutting your expenses, cutting your overhead, getting down to that baseline.

So you do that. Maybe you're still working a job. But you've cut your expenses so low, now you've got extra money. Now you're making more every month than you're spending.

This is your first cash machine, right? Just a job, a normal job like everybody else. But it's creating extra cash. Now the next... obvious step. Of course, you save it for a while.

Just stick it in the bank or something, or under your pillow, it doesn't matter. Just save it for a while. But then eventually, you want to use that cash, because now, like Robert Kiyosaki says, what the rich do is they make the money work for them. So you want to put that money to work.

You want that money to start making even more money. You want that extra money to start working for you. And I think the best choice for most people is the

to use that money to start a business. It can be a side business. It can be a part-time business. It can be a freelancing business. You can still work your normal job in the beginning.

But in addition, you get a little business going. It could be something very simple like an eBay reselling business or something. Or making something that you like making.

It could be something connected to your job, your career, where you're consulting or doing freelance work or extra work on the side and making even more extra money. And that's the key thing. You get this business going.

And in the beginning, maybe it's not making much money, but you keep going until you build that business up. So then the business starts making money also. Now you have your same money coming from your job, your paycheck, right?

You have some extra money from that. You take any extra money from the paycheck, your job, you put into your business. You start building your business up. Your business becomes more successful.

It starts to create money now. Now you've got even more extra money over your expenses. Your second cash machine is now working. Now at this point, if your business really starts growing, you can quit your job and just focus on the business.

Or you can just keep, if you want to keep the business small, if the business is creating some extra money but not enough for you to live on, or you could just keep working your job, keep doing the side business.

But either way, you now have every month even more extra cash coming in every month. Extra cash. You've got a little bit of extra cash from your job, your paycheck, because your expenses are low. They're lower than your income.

You put that into a business, which now starts making more money. So now you've got even more extra money every month. What do you do? Go buy an expensive car?

Go buy a big house? No. No. You do not. You now take that money and you create your third cash machine. Your third cash machine is investing. Investment.

So now you're going to invest that money. Now the first place to invest is in your own business. If you can invest in your own business to grow it even more, do that first, of course, of course. But eventually, if you're lucky, if you do a good job,

You'll get so much extra money from your business that you can't put it all back into business, right? You're not able to do it. You got even more extra money and you're like, oh, what do I do with this extra money now? It's just sitting in your bank account.

This is when you need to either, A, you could open a second business if you want, or you could start learning investing. You could start investing to create the third cash machine.

Now, there's different kinds of investing, right? You can invest in stocks and bonds. You can invest in real estate. And you can even create almost like a real estate business.

You can invest in gold and silver. Now, this is a whole other skill, so you're going to have to learn this. You don't just jump in and start investing with no skill. You're going to have to learn and read.

And again, just like with the business, you want to start small with low risk and learn how to cover your risk. I'm just starting to do this now. I'm just starting to do this. Up until now, I've always focused my money on putting it back into Effortless English.

But now I've got a decent amount of extra money. that and I realized, well, I got to do something with it. It's just sitting there doing nothing. So now I've got to learn how to invest.

I've done a little investing before with socks and bonds. Not very successfully, you know, I don't know, made a little bit, lost a little bit, but nothing much. So I realized it's a skill and now I really need to start learning it. So I'm reading books, I'm enrolling in a training course, I'm starting to practice with small amounts of money.

I realize I've got to do this so I can put my extra money to work so that my extra money will be making even more money and create a third cash machine, an investment cash machine.

And so now you can see then, you can see how this works, right? You could have a job creating money with a little extra cash. You put that into your own business or businesses.

Your business creates extra cash. You take that extra cash, which is even more, and you invest it. Then your investments create even more cash. Extra cash.

And, of course, you take that extra cash from your investments and you put it back into even more investments. And in this way it just keeps going up, up, up, up, up.

That's the big picture. It's simple. Now, it's not easy, of course, because there are a lot of skills to learn. This is the key thing, right? Business, running a business, lots and lots of skills to learn.

Marketing, sales, whatever industry you're in, you've got to know that. Some accounting, not too much with accounting, but you need the basics. So that's how you do it. And then, of course, when you move to investing then,

lot of other new skills to learn. So I'm just starting this now. I can't give you investment advice because I'm not an expert. I'm just starting to learn myself.

And each type of investment area, by the way, is a very different skill. So real estate investing is very, very different than stocks and bonds. And that is fairly different than gold and silver.

And that could be very different than investing in like angel investing in startups and things like that. So usually I'm realizing with investing, you've got to kind of pick one area first and learn it and really focus on it and learn all the skills and master that one first.

Get really good at it, then maybe look at another one. So for example, Robert Kiyosaki. Robert Kiyosaki became rich through real estate. he was a real estate investor he still is a real estate investor kind of small real estate investing houses renting out houses to people and then he moved up to apartment buildings and that's kind of the heart of his business and then of course he built a whole different business on teaching people about money through his book rich dad and he has a whole series of books that's a whole separate business he's got so he started with real estate business became rich through that

Then he has basically a publishing, consulting, teaching business. And he became even richer through that, right? He created a second cash engine. And then I know that he, from reading his books, he then finally started looking at stocks, bonds, and other types of investing to create yet another cash engine.

So now he's got all these cash engines that are all creating extra cash. And he puts the cash back into the investments and just keeps going up and up and up. This is the process.

But you have to start where you are. So maybe you are at the point where you're just at the first step. You have a job, and you now need to create some kind of little business. You need to get down to your baseline so you have some extra money coming in.

And you don't spend that extra money. You use that extra money to create your second cash engine, which is going to be some kind of small side business.

education. What Kiyosaki's doing is financial education. So important. We talked yesterday in the coffee and talk yesterday that about the fact that most of us and today still most kids are

teenagers, whatever, do not learn any of this. None of it. Money and the financial system right at the center of our culture, our society, our lives. I mean, think how many hours per week, per month, per year, per lifetime most people spend working or dealing with money in some way.

And yet... Nobody's taught this. What do they teach you? Go to school, take a bunch of stupid tests and get grades. Then get out and get a job and a paycheck.

That's what they teach you. That's it. That's all they teach you about money. And it's the way that poor and middle class people think. It's exactly what Robert Kiyosaki says.

And let's be honest, they want the system that way because they don't want a lot of free, independent entrepreneurs and investors. No, they want a huge number of employees that are dependent on big companies for a paycheck. Easier to control.

Less competition. So if you're sending your child to school, you're giving them to a system that will not teach them how to have the best life possible.

It will not teach them the most useful and important skills necessary in our modern life to succeed and be happy. They're not going to teach you. Well, they didn't teach you, and they're not going to teach your kids.

Your kids will learn nothing useful about money. Nothing at all. In fact, probably lots of lies and bad information. And let's face it, the teachers don't know.

The teachers have no idea. The average teacher in the school system has no idea about money at all. Just like Robert Kiyosaki's real dad, his poor dad, was a teacher. He knew nothing about making money beyond just getting his paycheck.

That's it. But it's worse than that. Your child will learn terrible social skills, not good ones. In a school, they'll learn a whole lot about bullying and teasing and trying to fit in and be cool.

That's what socialization is in the school systems. It's teaching them to be a slave again. to be afraid of being different. That's what kids learn socially in schools.

The other thing they learn is to sit on their butts in a chair while somebody talks about something boring for hours and hours and hours. They learn that learning and education is boring.

Low energy. Not surprisingly, when they finally finish school at age 18 or 22 or whenever, they don't want anything to do with education anymore. They are done.

Their natural curiosity has been destroyed. And off they go to work. And they learn very little for the rest of their lives. And the rest of their lives, they...

think of learning as something that is unpleasant. Or at the very least, a little boring. Certainly not wonderful and exciting like it was when they were small.

That's sad. It's tragedy. John Taylor Gatto, who wrote Dumbing Us Down, probably our next book for the book club, he tweeted something out today. about how basically this idea of school is radical and terrible and horrible.

That when you really think about what is it, what are we doing? What we're doing is we're taking our own children, our children, they're ours, right? We are the father, we are the mothers.

And instead of us taking care of them all day, instead of us teaching them, what is important in life, instead of us teaching them our values and how to live good, happy lives according to what we think. No, instead of that, what do we do? We send them off for half the day or more to some stranger, somebody we know nothing about, some teacher, some employee...

in a bureaucracy a bureaucratic employee that's what a school teacher is you know nothing about that person how many minutes do you spend communicating with your child's teacher what do you really know about them do you know what they do in their private life do you know what their values are do you know what their beliefs are

I mean, I'm sure when you meet them for a few minutes at the school or maybe have a little meeting with them about your kid, I'm sure they seem like they're... Oh, they seem nice. They seem friendly. Of course. Anybody can seem nice and friendly for a few minutes.

What are they really like? You don't know. That's the point. You don't know. And maybe one year they might be wonderful. Maybe they really are truly wonderful people.

But then the next year... And then the next year, they keep getting different teachers every time. Are they all wonderful? Are they all good? Do you really know anything about them?

You don't. And so what you're doing is you're sending your child, your blood, to be taught and programmed mentally and emotionally programmed by a stranger to

And that stranger, that teacher, and that system, that bureaucracy, is going to program them with their values, not yours. They're going to do what they think is important, not what you think is important. And I guarantee it's going to be different many times.

I mean, just look at the government of your own country. How wonderful are the politicians? Do you think they're good, honest people? Would you want them...

Raising your children? Do you trust them to do that? Because that's what they're doing. No, the politician is not the one in the classroom, but the politicians are the ones making all the rules that the teachers have to follow.

And they do follow them. That's what school is. And John Taylor Gatto is right. It is a radical, horrible system. The fact that people don't even think about this.

They just accept this as normal and okay. tells you how far we have come, how powerful the propaganda is. Just like Animal Farm. Just like Animal Farm.

Because when this system started, this schooling system, when it started back 150 years ago or more in some countries, the people saw, they recognized how radical and terrible this was.

Many, many, many people fought against it, this idea of sending their own children off to some government bureaucracy where they could be programmed for hours and hours and hours by strangers.

But now, all these years later, thanks to all the propaganda, most parents think, oh, it's just totally normal, no problem. They don't even think about it. They don't even question it.

I mean, all they have to do is look in the United States, for example. Now they're programming these kids, teaching them about all this transgender garbage, about how, oh, we have to accept that a 10-year-old boy can pretend to be a girl, and maybe we can even inject them with chemicals and hormones.

I mean, it's child abuse. But that's the values. Those are the values that the American school systems are now teaching. And I guess if you agree with that, no problem.

But what if you don't agree with that? You still going to send your kid off to be programmed with that garbage? It's not just that. School systems are full of drugs and alcohol.

Full. And the United States, Canada, the West... Once you hit about middle school, that's pretty early, like 12 years old. Lots and lots of those kids are doing drugs.

Lots of them are drinking. And that's what your kid's around. That's the socializing. See, one of the excuses people make for schools, they'll say, oh, but if I don't send them to school, how will they socialize?

Well, they'll socialize very well by learning from adults like you, their own family. They'll learn to be... very honorable and good in their socializing.

But you send them off to school to be around the worst of the worst, and a lot of terrible kids coming from a lot of terrible families, guess how they will be socialized? They're going to be socialized with bullying. They're going to be socialized by a lot of other kids doing drugs and alcohol at a fairly young age. They're going to be socialized by a lot of kids who are just watching garbage movies

A lot of kids who are into pornography and other garbage at a young age. That's the socialization they get, most of them. That's what you're sending them off to learn.

If you're lucky, they'll be strong. If you did a good job as a parent, and you're lucky, both, your kid can still grow up to be okay, but you're taking a very big risk. And why? Why?

Because the thing is, These schools are also absolutely terrible about teaching the basic academic subjects. They are horrible. I mean, just basic stuff.

Math, science, history, reading. That's it. Those basic, basic topics. Homeschooled kids perform much, much better in those areas. Homeschooled kids, on average, perform much, much better academically and on standardized tests.

They perform better. They need less time to do it every day. And they're learning the values and the social skills that for life from their own parents.

So for example, if you're religious, you can raise your child in your own religious values, not send them off to a government school where they'll be taught that religion's bad and taught a whole bunch of other stuff.

Or maybe you're not religious and you have some other values that you think is important. Or other things in life you think are important. Same thing. Maybe you want to teach your child about financial literacy and understanding finances and all these things that we're learning now with Robert Kiyosaki.

You can do that instead of them going off to school just to learn to be wage slaves. The government school systems... I believe one of the greatest evils in the world today.

Evil. I'm not using that word to exaggerate. I think truly evil. And just because the individual people can seem nice, you know, most of the teachers seem like they're okay, they're nice people, but nice isn't enough.

Nice does not mean good. I've had a whole VIP lesson about this recently. Nice just means friendly and pleasant. And usually nice also means just being obedient, following the rules, doing what you're told.

A whole lot of nice people do terrible things and they just say, well, I'm just doing what I'm told. I'm just, you know, I have to do this. It's my job.

They're nice, but they're doing evil things, just like, you know, these teachers that are pushing the transgender stuff on young kids. If you met them and talked to them in a, you know, in a restaurant or a cafe, you'd probably say, oh, they're so friendly, so nice, and yet they're doing something very evil.

So, we have to get back to this understanding of, you know, These are our children. They're our children. They're your children. You are 100% responsible for raising them.

And just because you get some free babysitting by sending them off to a school, it's not worth it, man. It's not worth it. And that's how they get a lot of parents. I think that's why most parents support the school system.

If they were really honest, if they would just be really honest and stop talking about all the bullshit about, oh, social skills. Yeah, right. Come on.

To be really honest, most parents would admit the reason they like the school system is it's free babysitting. It's half a day where someone else watches their kids and they don't have to.

It's free daycare. That's what it is. We have to be honest about this first and recognize it. But it's a terrible price you pay. It's a very terrible price you pay.

And this is why... We see it in the West, Europe, North America for sure. It's normal now. The normal situation... People accept this. The normal situation is that children become teenagers.

And now, when I say teenagers, I mean pretty young. It used to be like 16... But now it starts happening around age 13, maybe. Sometimes even earlier.

The children become teenagers, and suddenly they have a bad relationship with their parents. Suddenly they start to go against their parents. Suddenly they start listening to a bunch of nasty garbage music.

Many, many, many get involved with drinking, alcohol... different kinds of drugs. Many get involved with other kids who are bad news, bad. They get bad attitudes.

They start acting angry and arguing and fighting against their parents and rejecting their parents and their parents' values. This isn't an accident. If you watch the media, if you

They act like this is just normal. Oh, this always happens. No, this is a modern thing. This started happening, I don't know, in America it started happening around the 1950s after World War II when the school system really took over and became very strong.

That's when this whole teenage culture and teenage rebellion and teenage attitude really started and it's gotten worse and worse and worse and now it's really horrible and it starts quite young. So basically what's happening is families are being destroyed or weakened.

This is not normal. It's not healthy. It's not good. Of course it's healthy and good for a child as they get older to want more independence. This is natural.

They're trying to move towards being an independent adult. That's fine. We all expect that. But this just horrible attitude, the anger... and resentment towards their parents, the rejecting of their family's values, the broken or the weaker relationships with their parents, getting involved with all the garbage media culture, drugs, the alcohol.

That stuff is not natural, is not healthy, is not good. You don't want it, but it's a result of the school system. And that, at least in the United States, that is now normal. That is what most kids do.

Most parents, when their kids become teenagers, it's like they lose their own children. And suddenly their own children don't like or respect them anymore. That's terrible.

And suddenly their own children are focusing on other children for advice. Other stupid children who have no fucking idea. Sorry to use bad language, but it's the truth.

So there's a big, big danger of the school systems. How do we get out of that? I think homeschooling and I think thankfully we now have the internet and homeschooling is going high tech and there are so many different programs now.

I mean, there are so many online programs that are programs where you can just enter your kid in the program. You don't have to do all the teaching yourself, but you can look at the program and make sure it fits your values. Make sure it's good. Make sure it teaches the things you think are important.

And then you just kind of put the child into the program and you help them. You know, you can support them. but they mostly work through it independently which is also great because they're learning how to learn independently they're learning to be productive on their own without being pushed all the time by a teacher and they're learning to be more efficient also good skills good skills to be responsible or if you like you can you yourself can do all of the teaching or you can do anything in between

You can also, you know, hire a tutor. You hire somebody for a specific subject. A lot of parents are scared of math. Not at the young age, but they're scared.

Oh, my child gets into high school age, secondary school. I can't. What will I do? How will I teach them math? Well, first you let them try to learn on their own.

But if they really need help, just hire somebody. You could hire a grad student from a local college or something to tutor them, come over once a week and just help them out with any questions.

Or you could even hire a teacher from the local school who wants some extra money. Or you could hire someone online who's a math tutor. Again, just to help them and answer their questions.

And this could be very cheap, very inexpensive. There's so many solutions now. Again, just like with being an entrepreneur, You have to change your mindset.

The school mindset is the employee mindset. It's being dependent. It's just waiting for the big expert, the big bureaucracy to tell you what to do and to give you what you're supposed to learn.

The homeschooling mindset is the hunter mindset. You're hunting for opportunities for learning. You're hunting for opportunities for education. And when you change that mindset, you suddenly realize...

Oh my God, there are thousands and thousands and thousands of tremendous opportunities for independent learning for you as an adult, for your child of any age.

So much out there now. It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter how much money you make. It doesn't matter. There's so much. And it is awesome.

much, much, much better than school. Just like once you really learn how to be an entrepreneur or an investor or both, you realize the potential is so much bigger than being just an employee.

So I encourage you, look into homeschooling. If you're a parent, look into it. Again, you can start it part-time, just like you can be an employee and then you can start a business on the side extra

You know, after work. Well, you could do the same with your kids if you're a little nervous about it. Still let them go to school, but then get them into some kind of extra program, some kind of extra independent learning program at home.

It could be something online. Get them into it. Have them try it. Start teaching them how to learn independently, be more independent with their education, and then see what happens.

Maybe they'll love it. Maybe they'll love it, and eventually maybe they'll say, Oh, Mom, Dad, I don't want to go to school anymore. I'm done. Or maybe you'll decide.

It's not just what they want. You're the parent, so you've got to be the leader. And sometimes you do things because it's best for your kid long term, even if they don't like it in the short term. That's part of being a parent and a leader.

It's just necessary. You've got to make those hard decisions sometimes. So you might decide, Wow, they're learning. They're doing so much better. with the independent learning, with the homeschooling stuff.

It's making a closer connection with them, me and them, because I'm now involved in their education instead of just asking them, oh, what did you learn today? Oh, did you do your homework? No, now you're involved in the teaching, you're connecting.

Through their learning and education, it creates stronger connections, better relationships between parents and kids. And you start seeing these benefits, you might decide, well, school's over, kids.

It's done. The point is, you can try it out. You don't have to just jump in with this huge risk if you're scared. You can do it in little ways, part-time, extra on the side, just like with business.

In general, in life, if you're scared of something, find a way to do it in a small way with lower risk. And it's a great way to try something out, learn some skills, and start to build your confidence.

Then once you do that, then next you make the big change. Then you make the big jump. Good luck to you. This will transform. It will change your family and your life.

This is homeschooling. One of the key benefits that homeschooled children and families report again and again and again, even more than the academic success, they have better academic success for sure. They learn better. They're smarter, no doubt.

Not even close. But the other huge benefit that homeschooled families... talk about is the family is stronger there's just a much stronger connection much much closer relationships between the parents and the children and especially as they get older they don't show they don't report the same breaking of the relationship in the teenage years

So huge benefits. I'll be talking much more about this topic, well, as long as I'm doing this podcast. I'll talk to you again soon with the big Effortless English show later today, later tonight for me in Japan.

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