EPISODE 4.
                                   ACQUISITION OF KNOWLWLEDGE.
        You have just taken our aptitude tests? That is fine. What do you think your scores are?  What do you think of yourself? Are you sure you can be rich? Are the scores high enough? That is okay. But if not; you need to work on the questions again. Let us recapitulate and find answers to some of the questions. You just need to get all right to be on the road to riches. You need high level of exposure to do business. How is your level of exposure regarding the world around you? You need to be accepted by the people you will deal with. This depends largely on your mentality and personality. You could not afford to be stupid or silly, no one would accept or appreciate the things you would say or do. How are your health and, therefore, your looks? This has nothing to do with the profile of your face. This does not mean how beautiful or handsome you are, but we are talking about presentation to appeal to the people you will need to deal with. How is your level of honesty and virtues (morals)? These are ethics of your mind and beliefs. It is you who decide to be what you are. Your environment may play a large part. If you think you did not score high in honesty and virtues, you should resolve to be good now. It is the result of your mind and your beliefs coupled with upbringing. Sometimes religion could shape and tone you up. Your up-bringing could also be a good road map. Your environment plays a huge role. Psychology says when you live among rogues you may be one of them as you could not see anything wrong with what they do. You are prone to think the things they do everyday around you should be the way things ought to be. This is just survival principle. Your mind is paramount; you need to be judgementally critical, being able to analyse rationality and logics. For a joke, in case you find a suitcase full of money would you hand it over or decide to keep it? Have a laugh.
           For your health, you can adopt better practices which you should know of. We need not make a list of what you should do. How about your general nature? If you do not have the blend of the characteristics of an introvert and extrovert, then research what the characteristics are and emulate and develop them. Can you stand out there and talk your way through your audience or you are the shy, reserve and the quiet type. You need to be bold in everything you do. You just need to have lot of guts and confidence in yourself to be rich. I do not know how you could get rich without these characteristics. Oh! Sure, I forgot, you could inherit riches from dead parents. Sorry about that. But if you want to make it on your own, you really need high scores in these tests. As a supplement go BBC web site and take their personality test. Find out who your are.
        Regarding your associates, if you do not have any rich associate, it is going to be difficult for you to live and think like one. Your outlook on many things would be wrong, thus bringing your efforts to get rich to zero. You need to fit in when you stand among them or with them. You may not be able to behave like them when dealing with them. The question of uplifting your mentality is also very important. In this area all you need most would be books and time to read them. Another great way to learn things is by observation. You could observe procedures, people or methodology or modus operandi of a format of doing things. You necessarily would not need explanation from anyone regarding every bit of things. But you need to make mental judgement for yourself. You will need to draw constructive conclusions from what you have seen and heard. That is learning by intuition.
         Most of the products, services and designer goods we do enjoy today are the brain child of someone. They may not have been taught by someone or they did not have the chance to copy it from someone. The driving force is the desire to make maximum profit at a certain level of production capacity, to control a market share and to be cost effective at that capacity level, and most importantly, the desire to get rich. You should take in to account, your personal constraints that you have to be surmounted. You should determine the equitable combination of the factors of production that go to make up your product. All these take mental strength.
       At this level the test is simple but not everyone could pass. That is why you and many others are not in business. What special knowledge do you have? Probably you do not have any that is why you are not in business. What are your concerns about the things that happen around you? Could be, you do not care so much. Or you are just not affected or do not bother yourself or do not care what happens around you. You just allow things to happen, things take their own course. You do not think there could be a change or a better way out of these situations being created. Can you draw analysis from happenings in your locality? The answer may not be a straight yes. Think of the saying, “The great heights attained and kept by great men were not attained by sudden flight but while their fellow men were asleep they kept on toiling in the night.”  Can you relate to that? Can you imagine how some simple amenities we all enjoy today come about? Think of the needle, the envelope, neck tie and spoons. The thought process is the same as the big items like cars, aeroplanes, computers and mobile phones. Someone sat back and took cognition of things happening around him and with a special knowledge came up with innovation to resolve the problems created by the absence of the piece of the article they have created.  Can you imagine what went on in the minds of the Wilbur Wright brothers who invented aeroplane? I cannot tell you how and what made Samuel Morse to invent telephone messaging service. I tell you a simple story of our response to our environment. One of the biggest break-through in computer database came about as the result of paper presented by Dr. Codd regarding, “Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Databanks.” Larry Ellison from observation and with concern and special knowledge found a solution for the anomaly created. Larry Ellison’s creation and product became known as Oracle Database software consequently he became a billionaire. Most USA millionaires are associated with something special and spectacular. You know the story of Bill Gates of Microsoft fame, DHL can also be counted in this group. DHL is the result of three friends with the initials of D. H. L. I should mention Dell and HP computers. The dreams of these gentlemen paid off. They are all millionaires in their own right today. This does not relate to only computers but other trade and industry too. Do you know of Coca Cola royalty? Find out and have a laugh. For her dreams Oprah Winfrey is counted as the riches woman in the world. You could be counted among these great people if only you have a dream.
     Now what makes the difference is the dream. Do you have any dream? This is what we are out to teach you. Everyone is not in business because they do not have a dream. How do you find this wonder dream? That is the big break-through holding you and many people back from being rich. Going back on the tests and the scores, how do you assess yourself now? Do you have a dream that could transform you in to a millionaire? The facets of this dream depended on the acquisition of knowledge and your personalities. Is there something you can to do to the best of your ability? We would want you to search the inner self. What do you think you can do very well? It could be a simple aptitude you have. Think of Jerry Springler. Some footballers you should know of. Some great singers you love and herald.  Some of our friends did not know they could sing very well till X Factor or American Idol found them out. These are matter of raw talents they were bold enough to polish. You may not have special aptitude like singing or playing football but that should not preclude you from being rich. After all, all rich people are not singers or footballers.
   You need some specialised knowledge. This is where a University education is a big asset. You could have some other knowledge which may not be a requirement of going to University.  This said, you do not need to go to University to be rich, even though it makes a lot of difference. The major requirement is basic education. You should know what that means. Just stick with us and we shall help you find your dream to rich. See you again. Tarraaaah!