Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building

a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Josh why I am your host and today I want to share with you some ideas to help you

to embrace your financial mistakes as part of your learning. If you want the one sentence synopsis of this

show it's simply this. Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

But only if you're actually paying attention.

First a couple of questions for you on the topic of learning. One of the major errors I see

us making in modern life is we neglect the topic of how to learn. I ask you this question, during the course of your formal education, were

you ever given a course or a lecture even, a single lecture on how to learn or perhaps how to study.

Were you ever given tools of learning that you could apply throughout your entire lifetime.

Did a professor share those secrets with you?

For most of us the answer is no. And's for a number of reasons first of course the

entirety of the way that formal academic instruction is conducted assumes the need

for an expert so most of the time when you are presented with a problem you might

very easily revert back to the idea of school. I need to go and find an expert. I

need to go and find a teacher to teach me and to show me these things from the front of the room.

Now there's a place for teachers, there's a place for experts. I make my living as an expert teacher.

But I want to equip you to go beyond me. I want to equip you to go beyond almost any teacher with some ideas on learning for

yourself. Although there are times at which you need a teacher,

some of the most valuable learning can be done without a specific teacher.

Especially in the types of things that we discuss here on radical personal

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