@ Tim: You are absolutely right, and that is exactly the experience I try to facilitate in my classes. The best comment I had last quarter was, “in your class I felt like we were in a boardroom, not a classroom.”

I also follow Clark’s Rule of Teaching: “Never let the students discover that they know more than you do.”

I currently spend about $1000 per month on business coaching. I receive almost as much value from talking to others in the coaching group as I learn from the coach.

A recent fortune cookie of mine said, “Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” Sure.

Thanks for the insight that mastery is a continual process, not a destination.

As cliche as it may sound, education is an investment that pays off in dividends. This is exactly why a person with 14 mill would go back.

What this man seeks to control is his education. Not to be confused with schooling. As Mark Twain once stated, “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” He wants a one-on-one learning experience not another “A”. I think this is an example of why it is so difficult to truly imitate the work of an entrepreneur.

However, the lesson for us is that an entrepreneur doesn’t imitate but rather incorporates new experiences and knowledge to produce something unique.

However, just a few months after I started work, I realised that I had to keep my education up and to keep on learning. I’m in I.T. and there is always something new to learn, either a new technology, a new language or a new technique and unless you keep up you get left behind. It’s a crazy world but it’s the one I love and have been doing quite happily for 11 years now.

Of course, now I realise that it wasn’t the education I no longer wanted to do at university, it was the things I had to do outside of the classroom that took up all my time, the essays, revision and projects. In my new life as an employee, I found that when work was over and I’d left the front doors of the building, I was then able to then do exactly what I pleased. In a lot of cases that was actually education to further myself (minus the coursework)!

Of course, I was also able to spend more time on other hobbies too such as photography, woodwork and now I even get some time to write about Personal Finance too.

He still wants to get better and exceed. Great for him!

And it’s awesome that this person – even though he’s rich – still wants to do more than sit around and do nothing.

J.D.’s note is absolutely key. From my experience the people who are the most successful really are the people who continually strive to do their best, and be the best at what they do.