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How to Help Your Child Learn
Hint: a “normal” education isn’t the only way to get a GOOD education
In 2016 I quit the most “normal” job I’d ever had. The previous year-and-a-half I had split my time between the desk and the lecture platform. It was stressful and ultimately just not a great fit.
I’d always struggled to fit in.
That spring I found myself adrift. I knew I didn’t want another day job, but the entrepreneurial project I had started as a high-schooler had never grown enough to actually sustain me. I couldn’t just go back to that.
Thankfully I hadn’t been brought up to believe that I had to be “normal” in order to be successful so 2016 ended up being the most pivotal year of my life to date.
My parents had gifted me with a GOOD education that was far from normal.
Because they had inspired a love of learning I dove head-first back into the entrepreneurial world. My first experiment in high school had taught me what I didn’t know about business and so I had spent my evenings after work at the day job listening to podcasts that filled the gap. By the time I quit my “normal” job I knew what to do to make my crazy idea work.
That’s why I’m writing this today — because it did work!
