【Description】
Many parents wish for their children to achieve great worldly success. In order to realize this dream as soon as possible, many children are forced to face a heavy academic burden and are pressured to perfect a certain skill. However, does succeeding at a tender age guarantee them a winning spot for the rest of their lives? Is early success a blessing or a curse? Are parents forgetting the most important thing before pushing their children to achieve success?
What kind of foundation should parents build in their children in order for their kids to have a successful career and family harmony in the future? Grandmaster JinBodhi has the answers.
【You will learn】
- The right way to help children build a strong foundation and achieve success
- The right mentality to maintain when making investments
【Featured aphorisms】
- All possessions could be lost, except for your skills and knowledge.
【Content】
Success can wait, contentment keeps family and career safe
I need to remind parents of one thing. I wish everyone success, just not too early in life. I prefer people to cultivate success slowly.
If you want to be like the Chinese master pianist Lang Lang and become a world-class master in a certain field at around 20-25, that can be quite dangerous. When we have not yet learned how to act in life, but via one particular skill we have become the best person in the world, our downfall can come easily and quickly. It will be a rollercoaster.
Look at the mountains for example. The mountains and rivers in Guilin are magnificent. The beauty of it lies in that for every mountain, there is no slope for you to climb up. It is all vertical. They look like if I took some short sticks and stuck them into the ground. The mountains and rivers in Guilin are beautiful, right? It looks beautiful. But climbing there is extremely dangerous. All of them are vertical cliffs. We don’t need to discuss how they are formed; they are dangerous. What kind of mountain is not dangerous and relatively safe? The ones that are not so steep; you can walk up and down the mountain gradually. That won’t be dangerous, right?
Young people often lack foundation in appropriate behavior, moral awareness, spiritual height and the judgment of right or wrong. “I will hustle and I will win.” That is how they feel. No matter how good he is on the piano, or how good he is at singing, when he tastes a little success, his downfall could follow. Because he didn’t choose. I have taught everyone to choose between good and bad. Did your kids do that? After choosing kindness, did you teach them to do a good deed a day? No. If they don’t have this foundation, they will become extremely arrogant and start declining.
So I hope everyone can succeed after age 30. It is a safer option. I have also heard many stories in which people even after age 36 had made some money but quickly lost all assets and family due to a poor investment. In Malaysia, I know at least 10 families like this. These are people I have personally talked to. That is how many there are. They lack fortitude and knowledge.
Without knowledge, people lack fortitude. Say, today he made a million. He hopes that after an investment, and according to those who lured him into investing, more money will come like magic. Anyone who tells you that is dangerous. It is a dangerous sign of scams. But many people believe in it. They don’t think; they just believe. Remember this: when you are borrowing or investing, the money doesn’t belong to you anymore. There is no guarantee of getting it back. Remember that.
If you have a million, you invest 40% of it at most. The rest should go into a fixed deposit. Although the return rate is low, it will ensure your survival. If you see an opportunity, you put all your savings into it including your house and also money borrowed from friends and family, are you asking for death? What if it is a scam? You won’t be able to pay off the debt. How will you live then? All investments contain risk. All possessions could be lost, except your skills and knowledge. You will lose even your physical body one day.
When it comes to investments, please be cautious. How exactly do you act cautiously? Don’t be greedy. Your family savings are secured as long as you are not greedy. Do as I say, and the benefit for you is that you will always be able to put food on the table. But those who love taking risks and working hard to win will think I am too conservative. Well, this could save your family. Especially for a man. Without job and money, your family will be broken. Be cautious when taking risks.
So I don’t think it is good for people to succeed too early in life. You need to succeed holistically. Your mentality, morality and ability must all succeed in order for it to be relatively safe. This way, the risk is reduced. They know when to take a step back in order to keep their family and career.