Brian Kim’s marketing-heavy website has a ton of great insights and content. One article in particular made me think about all the subjects we study in the quarter of a lifetime in our school systems and how they relate to what I do for a successful living.
In his article on the Top 5 Things That Should Be Taught In Every School there are great reminders of the basics:
- Personal Finance
- Effective Communication
- Social Skills
- Sales
- Time Management
Looking back on an average day in the office those are really the key skills I use….
In my case the ultimate teachers became Tom Dorsey in Finance, Mahan Khalsa in Sales and David Allen and Tony Robbins in Time Management, Barbara Minto on Communication and Keith Farazzi on Social Skills.
And I barely remember the calculus, geography, physics and philosophy I took. Let alone early European literature.
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