What I Didn't Learn At School But Wish I Had (Unabridged)
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $21.99
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
This book is about more than just a rags to riches story of how a young Australian went from sleeping on a friend’s couch, $150,000 in debt, no job or future prospects, to becoming a self-made millionaire while still in his 20s. It’s about something much more powerful and unique that he had to discover in order to excel in the game of life in the 21st Century. That “something” was a 21st Century Educational System.
In this book, Jamie lays the foundation for success with a blueprint of the same educational system he used to transform his life from broke to millionaire in less than five years. Unfortunately, you cannot learn this at school or university, and without it your chances of excelling in the 21st Century are remote. More than 250,000 people worldwide have been exposed to the 21st Century Education already, transforming their lives as a result of its knowledge and strategies. Now it’s your turn to discover this unique system that is not only creating millionaires, but is transforming peoples happiness and fulfillment as well.
Customer Reviews
Terrible Narration
I am not rich yet, but I am trying to educate myself in wealth creation. I think people like me are the intended audience for this book. The rating I have given here is based on the quality and value of the audiobook, but I will review the content of the book as well.
There is a lot to dislike about this audiobook, but there is also a lot that can be learned from the actual content of the book. I would recommend purchasing a hardcopy or e-book version rather than downloading this audiobook.
The Narration: Simply put, the narration is terrible. The narrator (credited as Bob Hennessy) rushes through the entire book and repeatedly stumbles over his words. The number pronunciation errors are extremely grating, especially the way he says "expeshully". It struck me as being a budget production. This was quite incongruous with the author telling me that to be rich I need think rich and to stop buying things that are discounted or second rate while using the voice of this narrator.
The author is very much a student of the modern wealth and motivational "mentors". So this book is often a collection of wisdom directly from the mentors. This is not a bad thing. The author also occasionally puts a new perspective on the teaching of others. There is a strong Australian theme in the book and it's amazing how much more I related to some of the stories as an Aussie myself. There are some very interesting topics (stock market & real estate strategies) covered in later chapters of the books that inspire further investigation and education. However, again the narrator makes it extremely difficult follow along with the ideas.
A large portion of the book is set aside to expound the authors theories in regards to the powerful families that rule the worlds finances and governments through banking. While, through ignorance, I don't have an opinion either way on these, it would have been nice to have some indication in the book description that this was so prominent in there.
In my opinion the author does not sound like a very 'likeable' guy (for example: the paint ball story where rigs the teams heavily in his favour then blatantly lies to his friends and colleagues saying the teams were randomly generated. His team then proceeds to route the opposition in every game, ignoring the accusations of cheating from the weaker team…some mate). That being said I don't have to like the guy to learn from him. I believe I would have gotten far more reading this in hardcopy or e-book format.
All in all avoid the audiobook version, but take what you can from the content. In fairness I have to say that I will be checking out other literature from this author in the future, as long as Bob isn't reading.