One of my students, let’s call him Tee is now a millionaire because of one smart move, and is currently in a tertiary institution when most of his mates have graduated. Here’s his story.
Tee from nano banana AI
Tee was very good at mathematics, physics, and further mathematics. In fact, he loved solving problems, been calculative, and throughout his six years in high / secondary school, he topped his class in those subjects.
He was one of those students who were always sent out of school because they defaulted in school fees payment, but that boy, strong, wilful would always find a way to stay on top of the class every single term.
Eventually, they graduated from high school, and it was time to move on with life. Every of his classmates wrote jamb, but he didn’t, not because he didn’t want to further his education, but because his parents could not afford the payment of less than $5. He didn’t see that as an end, rather, he diverted.
Somehow, he came across cryptocurrency buying at a time when it was just growing. It was the year when not so many people knew about it. He learned everything he could lay his hands on, and being very smart in calculations, he learnt very fast, but then, he was left with getting money to invest, so, he did menial jobs to raise the amount he needed.
Through this, he was supporting his family while still absorbing every form of lessons he could get about cryptocurrencies. Every lesson he came across on money, investments, and risks, he applied them, and among his applications, buying Bitcoin was one of the risks he took.
He didn’t stop learning even after buying those, rather, he continued to explore deeper into the world of money market and investments, and he came across forex trading. For some reasons, he didn’t explore that much, but he applied trading into cryptocurrency too.
His mates? They were in tertiary institutions struggling to understand the complexity of the so many elective and selective courses they most likely wouldn’t help up using in their career while Tee was growing his financial intelligence sense.
I don’t have to tell you what Tee’s life is like right now, but I can tell you that he is not living a life of struggle anymore. He failed faster and earlier in life, lost money a lot, and now, he is one of the richest among his mates.
Last year, he wrote jamb and applied for a degree, but this time, he knows exactly what he wants to learn. He has a lot of the tools he needs to build projects, knows mistakes to not make, and pursues his life peacefully right now.
I believe a lot of people would’ve turned out well with money if we were taught all these things in school, not in basic school, but in high school. There, our frontal lobe has developed to a certain degree, we can understand these things, and these lessons would’ve stuck with us till now.
It would’ve been easier to spot scamps, Ponzi, and we would’ve failed earlier in life, and not be struggling as adults because we would’ve made better decisions with money. Importantly, a lot of people wouldn’t grow up worshipping money, rather, they will learn to make their money work and work well for them.