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Why didn’t they teach me this in School?

The education in schools and colleges is highly overrated. Life lessons are not being taught in schools and colleges which are required to grow in life. Nowadays Schools are designed to get good marks in the board examinations and reputation of colleges is measured by their placements. Here I am mentioning some of key lessons related to ‘ Money Management’  which I have taken away from the book ‘ Why Didn’t They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live’  written by  Cary Siegel.  If You want to read full book, you can buy it from the link below. Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By Life Lessons (Who can be your partner) One should marry with the person who is very good with money management. Ask question to your partner related to salary, loans, views on money borrowing etc. Choose your partner wisely, divorce can be frustrating in the terms of money as well as mentally. First Job (Learn as muc

Treat Mobile Phone as Landline Telephone

In this modern era, we can not live without mobile phone for a single minute in a day. It has become need in our day to day life.  The effect of this culture is that we don't spend time with our loved ones, even while sitting with family we constantly gazing into phones. Another side effect of this we constantly put pressure on our neck, which will result in neck and back problems these days  in early ages. In my opinion, lets try out one thing treat our phone as landline telephone. Put our phone at one place in our home at eye level. If we need it, go to that place and use it. Slowly we will see in decrease in screen time. In this way we will develop our habbit. Phone are built in such a way to consume our precious time. Lets hope our future generations will learn from it and adapt to less screen time. It will maximize their productivity 2X. I hope this discussion will continue in a good way. Take care.