hat since kindergarten I think. I think as early as kindergarten my mother was telling me here's your path to success. Do these things and you will do well.

Now I don't know if everybody's parents do that. Like do the poor kids get the same kind of guidance? So here's basically what it is. This is my version of it. Focus on useful education. Keyword is useful, right? Make sure you get good grades, get into college and take a useful major. Major. Does everybody's parents tell them they got to do something useful or they won't make money? Mine did. I'm pretty sure my mother was quite clear that going to college for no purpose was a losing proposition. You had to go to college for something to be better at something specific that's useful, right? Does everybody's parents tell them? I know to me it was obvious by the time I was in first grade because it was just drilled in from the first days.

All right that's the first thing. Number two: stay out of trouble. Stay out of jail, right? Stay out of jail. Stay off of drugs, which I've managed to do until college. Don't become a parent too soon. You don't have a kid that you aren't planning on too soon, right? Just basic stuff. You know don't get anybody knocked up too soon.

Build a talent stack. Now that part I'm adding. You know that wasn't exactly added by my mother. My mother was still the generation try to be the best at whatever you're doing which was kind of a good starter advice but later you know I developed the concept of the talent stack. That's from my book back there which is now the talent stack idea is now common advice but it wasn't common until I invented it. So that's the one thing I added here. You know build a talent stack.

Be useful to others. That's the next point. It's not good enough just to be good at something. It has to be good at something that somebody wants to pay for. You have to be useful. And so I was trained to be useful all the time like I had to mow the lawn. I had to take the garbage out. I had to do something. Get good grades but I always had to be useful. That was always just baked into the operating system.

Favorite systems over goals. You know make sure you're doing all the right things to give you lots of options. That was never told to me directly so that's again that's my addition to it but sort of indirectly I think I'd pick that up. And then learn basic risk management. Basic risk management which includes financial risk management but I'm making it a little bigger now.

None of that is hard. Everything on my little list of how to be successful is pretty straightforward. Pretty straightforward. There's nobody who couldn't do it, right? You could be in a pretty bad school but let's say you're a minority student in the worst school. You coul