Did you know that many of the most critical skills required in order to succeed as an online entrepreneur are actually pounded out of us by a traditional education model?

That's right. Your supposed education could be directly responsible for keeping you from business success.

Today, Jim tells us about all the things he had to unlearn before he could

succeed in business. These thoughts are from the notes Jim is using to write an upcoming book. So

please be sure to let him know what you think by visiting silentjim.com and sending us a comment.

Hey, Jim, help us unlearn some stuff.

Hey, this is Jim. Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. I'm your host and I'm so excited

today to bring to you a topic that's on my mind. I hope you find it useful. I think you will,

especially if you find yourself struggling a little bit to have a business builder's

mentality. I've been around a lot of successful

entrepreneurs the past decade plus. I came out of the corporate world where there weren't a whole

lot of entrepreneurial thinkers necessarily, and I had a very traditional education. And the

premise of today's show is the things I learned in that traditional education, sure, there was some value there, but for the most part, it really slowed me down.

There was actually several things that I had to unlearn on my way to succeeding as an entrepreneur based on the education.

Now, I had some great teachers, and I'm not bitter against my parents, and I'm not bitter against my parents and I'm not

angry at the system. I'm not anti-schooling, although I do think schooling and education are two

entirely different topics. But I just want to dive into that today just a little bit because I've

been around a lot of very successful entrepreneurs and virtually none of them say, yep, it's because I went to this

great business college. Now, some of them will say, yeah, I learned some valuable things there,

but for the most part, it's the connections. It's learning to think correctly. And I would argue

that there's a lot of things you have to just unlearn if you come through a traditional

schooling model. Now, I don't say education because, again, to me, schooling and education are two

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