A parent describes encouraging their teenage kids to start small businesses, like a 15-year-old cleaning neighbors' garbage cans, rather than chasing grades. Real work teaches curiosity and practical skills better than college as the default path.
You know, yesterday I was helping my son with one of his entrepreneurial projects of just, you know, cleaning out garbage cans as a 15-year-old for all of the neighbors, you know, collecting $10, $15 a can. And my kids package out and ship all of my books out. I've written half a dozen books. They send those out to the world. They get paid to do that. So, so my kids are, rather than teaching them good grades, which they don't get grades, by the way, but instead of teaching good grades, college, What we teach them is that college is a path for certain careers, and that really the purpose of education is to love to learn learning, and then also to figure out what you love, and then if you can, turn that into some type of business that you really enjoy.
